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Periodical from the Danish Institute at Athens publishing results of Danish archaeological field work in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean and studies by Danish and international scholars working within the same thematic and geographical field of research. This volume includes field reports from Kalydon and the Zea harbour of Athens, and studies in Ancient Greek polyandry, Mithridates VI as Rome's perfect enemy and sophistic literature. With contributions by Niels Andreasen, Søren Dietz, Hedvig von Ehrenheim, Martin S Harbsmeier, Dimitris C Papadopoulos, Helle Salskov Roberts, Annette Højen Sørensen, Maria Stavropoulou-Gatsi, Ingrid Strøm, Olga Zolotnikova, Christian Høgel, Jacob Isager, Bjørn Lovén, Jesper Majbom Madsen, Mads Møller Nielsen and Nota Pantzou.
Tiende bind i Det Danske Institut i Athens skriftserie. Dette nummer indeholder bidrag om den danske diplomat Holger Andersens antiksamling på Haderslev Katedralskole, søofficeren Frederik von Scholtens tegninger og akvareller fra Athen 1824-29, en nytilskrivning af en af Ny Carlsberg Glyptoteks arkaiske sfinx-skulpturer til den kendte Kalvebærer/Moscophoros-mester, dansk-græske udgravninger i den antikke by Sikyon på det nordlige Peloponnes og om fund fra udgravninger på Cypern.
This is the fourth volume of the journal of the Danish Institute at Athens with articles in the fields of Greek archaeology, history, philology and literature. The present volume contains two philological articles: Alkibiades and The Phaedrus: The Politics of the Appetites by Doug Al-Maini, and The Platonic Corpus in Antiquity by Jorgen Mejer. Birte Lundgreen's article, Use and Abuse of Athena in Roman Imperial Portraiture: The Case of Julia Domna, discusses the uses of Imperial Roman portraiture, particularly in the eastern provinces. Anne Marie Carstens has investigated Rock-Cut Tombs in the Halikarnassos Peninsula in Asia Minor and highlights the regional character of burial customs in th...
Contents: Domestic Space in the Geometric Cyclades; Archaeological field work in ancient Kalydon; The Zea Habour Project 2001-06; A fresh approach to the problems of the Parthenon Frieze; The cult and political background of the Knidian Aphrodite; Sight, object, space. The notion of landscape in antiquity as a functional or an aesthetic category.
PoDIA 10 features articles presenting the results from archaeological sites in Cyprus and at Sikyon, Greece, the activities of Danish philhellenes, and a re-evaluation of the significance of an archaic Attic Sphinx in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Kristina Winther-Jacobsen analyses and discusses the ceramics and associated burial customs from two tombs in Cyprus from the Hellenistic-Roman period. Silke Muth and her team of researchers offer a preliminary report on the excavations and accompanying research in Old Sikyon 2018-2019. It is in the same connection that M. Arenfeldt Christensen presents a case study of human skeletal material from an Archaic grave in Sikyon, uncovered i...
Contents: Danes in Greek Archaeology; The Institute; The archaeological projects by the Institute; Academic staff projects; Catalogue of exhibits; Archaeological finds; Works of art; Illustrations; Bibliographic abbreviations; Selected bibliography. Contributors: Niels Andreasen, Soren Dietz, Birgitte Kofoed Fudas, Jesper Jensen, Bjorn Loven, Mette Schaldemose & Lone Simone Simonsen.
This is the first detailed and comprehensive study of the shipsheds which were a defining symbol of naval power in the ancient Mediterranean.