Anthony Snodgrass
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5366340 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anthony Snodgrass |
| NOMBRES | Anthony |
| APELLIDO | Snodgrass |
| FIRMA | SNODGRASS A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 395 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1962 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Ischia and After
This short note reminds the important role the meeting “La mort, les morts dans les sociétés anciennes”, which took place in Ischia in 1977, played to establish a long-lasting connection between historical anthropology and classical archaeology
The Regional Pottery-styles
The nomenclature of the pottery-styles of the early Iron Age, and the application of the names, have reached a stage of fairly general agreement, in spite of the acknowledged inadequacy or unsuitability of some of the terms themselves. There are regional Protogeometric styles which satisfy the definition and yet lie partly or wholly outside the timespan of other Protogeometric styles. The beginnings of the Iron Age in Greece certainly lie in the …
Iron and Other Metals
Meteoric iron was perhaps the earliest raw material used, but it was often exceedingly difficult to work; the discovery of a primitive method of direct smelting from ores produced blooms which could be worked into wrought iron, but for a long time the remained inferior in quality and strength. Iron daggers of twelfth to eleventh-century date do occur at several sites in Syria and Palestine, as well as deeper into the interior, but these are all o…
External Relations
Since the principle of common ancestry was so strongly held, the population-movements were thought of as essentially internal affairs: Greeks of one tribe or element had moved to displace Greeks of another, and thus set in motion a whole series of similar migrations. One of the most significant developments in the opening up of overseas communications comes when Greeks again settle permanently on foreign soil, and this is very probably to be date…
The Internal Situation
The development of iron technology, in the more advanced regions of Greece, has already provided a direct instance to the contrary. The very mention of Homeric burial-customs is almost enough to bring a smile to specialist faces. Scarcely a year goes past without the discovery of some grave or cemetery whose practices are remarked on for their resemblance to those of Homer. Many persuasive arguments have nevertheless been deployed to show that th…
The Concept of a Dark Age
The period between the fall of the Mycenaean civilization and the rise of Archaic Greece, once its general nature and broad chronological limits had been agreed upon, was coming naturally to attract the name of a dark age; but this rough delineation had only really become possible with the advent of modem archaeological methods. The poets were, of course, much nearer to the critical events than the first extant Greek prose-writers, but it is the …
The Grave
In few periods of antiquity does archaeology lean so heavily on the evidence of graves as in the early Iron Age of Greece. The merits of the grave as a source of evidence are several: its universality, in that it is a category which cuts across all racial or social divisions, is one quality whose worth is apparent enough; its survival-value, as a result of the process of concealment which it represents, is high. The graves are on the whole extrem…
The Chronology of the Early Iron Age in Greece
Chronological schemes for at least part of the period have been proposed by several scholars, and there is little doubt that they have carried the process as far as is warranted by the present state of the evidence. Many later Oriental objects in Greece provide even less chronological information; and in several cases objects which were once classed as Oriental imports are cogently argued to be Greek or Cretan adaptations of Oriental forms, which…
The Dark Age of Greece
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614035); To be the first full and convincing historian of obscure centuries and the interpreter of a difficult and unpromising material culture is more than falls to most scholars in the course of a lifetime." So wrote the anonymous TLS reviewer in 1972. The Dark Age of Greece is now reissued with an extensive foreword in which the author considers what effect three decades of research and scholarship hav…
Putting Death in Its Place
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Les concepts en sciences de l’ Antiquité
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The Classical World
This chapter is concerned with a geographical area that at first extended over the coastal zones of the central and eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, then in its later stages to a much broader territorial swathe, intermittently reaching from the Atlantic and the North Sea to the Persian Gulf and the Indus Valley. The cultures inhabiting this area do not usually feature in narratives of world prehistory, for two main reasons. There is, firs…
Setting the Frame Chronologically
This chapter lays out the chronological framework for the history of hoplite warfare. It discusses the impact that the studies of Homeric warfare have had on the orthodoxy. This chapter considers the problems posed by the evidence of iconography and archaeology, especially the dedications of actual armor in the sanctuaries at Olympia and Delphi, and the various philological and historical approaches that scholars have applied to the literary sour…
Penser l’art antique
Existe-t-il une différence fondamentale entre l’étude de l’art « ancien » – qu’il soit préhistorique, antique ou médiéval – et l’histoire de l’art des époques ultérieures ? De nombreux arguments semblent suggérer que oui : en nature, comme en quantité, les sources documentaires sont plus lacunaires que pour les périodes suivantes ; faisant usage de matériaux plus fragmentaires, elle repose davantage sur la connaissance du contexte ; elle fait lar…
Homer and Greek Art
Geometric art has been the favored field for the comparative study; but that is not the whole story. This chapter concentrates on the art of the period which has the best claim to have fallen within the actual lifetime of Homer, the Late Geometric: a conservative choice, but one modified by the adoption of a less traditional aim, that of keeping the literary and the visual elements in more or less equal balance. The successive phases of Greek art…
Soft targets and no-win dilemmas
Most of the opposition directed at the new AcropolisMuseum (herafter NAM), both beforeand since its opening in June 2009, has turned out to be politically motivated, mainly from the Left in Greece, mainly from the Right in Britain (the Daily Telegraph called it ' a hideous visitor centre in modern Athens'before it was even built [Wilson 2006]). Dimitris Plantzos comes at the museum from a different angle, but he too is determinedly on the attack.…
Archaeology and the Study of the Greek City
For more than a hundred years, people studied the Greek city as an entity without making more than negligible use of archaeological evidence. As late as 1969, in the translated second edition of Victor Ehrenberg's Der griechische Staat, the reader has to search very hard indeed to find even a veiled recourse to archaeology. The historians of the polis saw themselves as dealing essentially with an abstraction. Today, all that appears to have chang…
Poet and Painter in Eighth-century Greece
The relationship between poetry and the visual arts is seldom close and never simple. But special difficulties attend the study of it in the eighth century BC in Greece, when evidence is not only in excessively short supply but, when it does come, is almost by definition ambiguous. On the whole, regarding the question of the interpretation of late geometric vase-paintings and other eighth-century art there are well-established opposing positions:…
The Uses of Writing on Early Greek Painted Pottery
The interplay of image and word had long been ubiquitous in the culture of ancient Greece. But there are very few places where the two come so close together as in the painted inscriptions on Greek vases: indeed, inasmuch as the inscriptions at times seem to be located with a view of filling gaps in the figure-scenes, the word can actually become a part of the image. In 1990 appeared Henry Immerwahr's long-awaited Attic Script: A Survey. The titl…
The Hoplite Reform and History
‘The unparalleled nature of the find’ of the Panoply Tomb at Argos has now been qualified by the excavation of two other contemporary burials at the site, with helmets and other weapons. This chapter examines the archaeological evidence for the use of hoplites by Etruscans, Romans, and Greeks in warfare, as well as their possible effects on military tactics, in the critical period of the eighth and seventh centuries BC. The equipment of arms and …
Pausanias and the Chest of Kypselos
Pausanias's account of the Chest of Kypselos takes up some 170 lines in the best-known text. The remarkable correspondences between Pausanias's account of the iconography and epigraphy of the chest and the iconography and inscriptions on surviving Corinthian vase scenes are enough to prove beyond reasonable question that he was describing a genuine product of archaic Corinth, dating perhaps from somewhat after 600 BC. In his statistical study of …
Narration and Allusion in Archaic Greek Art
A recurrent theme of Sir John Myres' writings was the extended analogy between poetry and the visual arts. In describing painting and other visual media, we all tend to use words which in their strict and original sense are applied to the spoken or written word: terms like narration, allusion, reading, episode, or even syntax. Myres was not afraid to reverse the process too, and wrote of ‘frieze-composition’ in Homer, and of the ‘economy of essen…
The ‘Hoplite Reform’ Revisited
Interaction by Design
Peer polity interaction, like many concepts recently under discussion in archaeological circles, is by no means the exclusive property of archaeology. One of the problems on which the model of peer polity interaction could be expected to throw light is that of the origins of the Greek (or any other) form of state. The operations of peer polity interaction are by no means confined to fully fledged states. For the sake of accuracy, it is better to …
Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece
Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book contains twenty-five chapters, some of them previously published only in rather inaccessible places, which have contributed to this change. The chapters cover four decades of work on pre-classical and classical Greece and some adjacent fields of scholarship, beginning in the 1960s when classical…
Off-Site Pottery Distributions
An historical Homeric society
I begin with two modern texts, both as it happens printed on the first page of earlier issues of this journal, and each, I think, expressive of a strong body of opinion in Homeric scholarship, at least in the English-speaking countries, at the time of their writing. First, Miss Dorothea Gray in 1954: ‘Belief in an historical Homeric society dies hard’. Secondly, Professor Adkins in 1971: ‘I find it impossible to believe ... that the bards of the …
An Archaeology of Greece
Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the whole field of the study of the past to make innovative discoveries and apply modern approaches by widening the aims of the discipline
The Hidden Landscape of Prehistoric Greece
For all-period intensive surveys in Greece, even those of very recent years, an abiding problem has been the difficulty of detecting prehistoric remains, whether at the level of nucleated sites or in the form of scatters across the landscape. The authors suggest explanations for the problems encountered in this regard, over the past 20 years, by the Boeotia Survey. They offer some first steps toward the solutions of these problems, based on asses…
The Cambridge/Bradford Boeotian Expedition
This is a preliminary report (the first substantial publication to appear) on the first four seasons ' work of an archaeological survey project in Boeotia, central Greece, reinforced by the results of a further study season. After a brief general consideration of survey strategies, the article concentrates on the specific conditions of the sample area chosen in western Boeotia. A full account is given of the field procedures adopted in the openin…
The New Archaeology and the Classical Archaeologist
Mediterranean survey and the city
The Mediterranean, and especially Greece, provides fine conditions for field-survey - long and intense human occupation, good surface exposure, and distinctive, diagnostic ceramics. Where the Classical authors are conspicuously reticent about the countryside, field-survey can provide a rural picture, as well as the settlement patterns of prehistory. Here, the methods of field-survey return from the countryside to look at the cities, formerly the …
Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece
Classical archaeology has changed beyond recognition in the past generation, in its aims, its choice of subject-matter and the methods it uses. This book contains twenty-five chapters, some of them previously published only in rather inaccessible places, which have contributed to this change. The chapters cover four decades of work on pre-classical and classical Greece and some adjacent fields of scholarship, beginning in the 1960s when classical…
Barbarian Europe and Early Iron Age Greece
This paper is concerned with the nature of the relationship that existed between Central Europe and the Aegean area in the early 1st millennium B.C. Interest in Aegean-continental connections has been strong for a considerable time, but has been intensified, particularly from the continental standpoint, in the past fifteen years. Although some of these studies have been concerned with the contacts between 2nd millennium (Late Bronze Age) Greece a…
The Dark Age of Greece
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614035); To be the first full and convincing historian of obscure centuries and the interpreter of a difficult and unpromising material culture is more than falls to most scholars in the course of a lifetime." So wrote the anonymous TLS reviewer in 1972. The Dark Age of Greece is now reissued with an extensive foreword in which the author considers what effect three decades of research and scholarship hav…
A Paradigm Shift in Classical Archaeology
This article, a revised version of the 13th McDonald Lecture given on 21 November 2001, sets the recent and partial transformation in the content and practice of Classical archaeological against the background of Kuhn's well-known work, first published in 1962, on paradigm and revolution in the scientific disciplines. Perhaps the most important question in this context — how would we know when a change in paradigm had taken place? — is harder to …
Soft targets and no-win dilemmas
Most of the opposition directed at the new AcropolisMuseum (herafter NAM), both beforeand since its opening in June 2009, has turned out to be politically motivated, mainly from the Left in Greece, mainly from the Right in Britain (the Daily Telegraph called it ' a hideous visitor centre in modern Athens'before it was even built [Wilson 2006]). Dimitris Plantzos comes at the museum from a different angle, but he too is determinedly on the attack.…
Classical matters
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Poet and painter in eighth-century Greece
The relationship between poetry and the visual arts is seldom close and never simple. But special difficulties attend the study of it in the eighth century before Christ in Greece, when evidence is not only in excessively short supply but, when it does come, is almost by definition ambiguous. On the whole question of the interpretation of Late Geometric vase-painting and other eighth-century art, there are well-established opposing positions: eac…
Deconstructing ‘The Sense of Place’? Settlement Systems, Field Survey, and the Historic Record
After a generation of intensive regional surface survey in the Mediterranean lands, it is both necessary and enlightening to evaluate the ways in which this new approach has produced results which either support, or demand modifications to, or directly challenge, previous ideas on the evolution of human settlement systems in this macro-region. Given that many regional survey projects have only recently achieved final publication, or are in the fi…
A Liberating Event
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The Boeotia Project
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Archaic Greece
Until quite recently, it has been the accepted view that the Archaic period of Greek history was by definition merely a prelude to the Oassical period, an era regarded as unsurpassed in its literary, intellectual, artistic, and political achievements. Lately, however, ancient historians and Classical archaeologists have undertaken a major reappraisal of their subject, one result of which has been a broadening view of the Archaic period and its im…
The Dark Age of Greece. An Archaeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries B. C
Iron Age Greece and Central Europe
Early Greek Armour and Weapons from the End of the Bronze Age to 600 B.C
Barbarian Europe and Early Iron Age Greece
This paper is concerned with the nature of the relationship that existed between Central Europe and the Aegean area in the early 1st millennium B.C. Interest in Aegean-continental connections has been strong for a considerable time, but has been intensified, particularly from the continental standpoint, in the past fifteen years. Although some of these studies have been concerned with the contacts between 2nd millennium (Late Bronze Age) Greece a…
Early Greek Armour and Weapons
Arms and Armour of the Greeks
Arms and Armour of the Greeks
The Dark Age of Greece
To be the first full and convincing historian of obscure centuries and the interpreter of a difficult and unpromising material culture is more than falls to most scholars in the course of a lifetime. So wrote the anonymous TLS reviewer in 1972. The Dark Age of Greece is now reissued with an extensive foreword in which the author considers what effect three decades of research and scholarship have had on his original findings and arguments. Profes…
The Dark Age of Greece. An Archaeological Survey of the Eleventh to the Eighth Centuries B. C
Poet and painter in eighth-century Greece
The relationship between poetry and the visual arts is seldom close and never simple. But special difficulties attend the study of it in the eighth century before Christ in Greece, when evidence is not only in excessively short supply but, when it does come, is almost by definition ambiguous. On the whole question of the interpretation of Late Geometric vase-painting and other eighth-century art, there are well-established opposing positions: eac…
Auden and archaeology
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Archaic Greece
Until quite recently, it has been the accepted view that the Archaic period of Greek history was by definition merely a prelude to the Oassical period, an era regarded as unsurpassed in its literary, intellectual, artistic, and political achievements. Lately, however, ancient historians and Classical archaeologists have undertaken a major reappraisal of their subject, one result of which has been a broadening view of the Archaic period and its im…
La prospection archéologique en Grèce et dans le monde méditerranéen
Surface remains are just that-the junk you find on the surface-and nothing more. And I say, screw them.Le mot ' document ', en français comme en anglais, implique un certain jugement de valeur : les données fournies par un document sont prises au sérieux et renvoient à une question qui présente, pour nous, une certaine importance. Le sceptique qui rejette les témoignages sur l'atterrissage des soucoupes volantes aux États-Unis n'utilisera pas le …
The Cambridge/Bradford Boeotian Expedition
This is a preliminary report (the first substantial publication to appear) on the first four seasons ' work of an archaeological survey project in Boeotia, central Greece, reinforced by the results of a further study season. After a brief general consideration of survey strategies, the article concentrates on the specific conditions of the sample area chosen in western Boeotia. A full account is given of the field procedures adopted in the openin…
The New Archaeology and the Classical Archaeologist
A salon science
We asked Professor Anthony Snodgrass, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, and adviser on such matters for this journal, to review for us seven books* in his field which have been published in the last few months. He has chosen as the title for his review article, 'A salon science?', which he now explains
An Archaeology of Greece
Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the whole field of the study of the past to make innovative discoveries and apply modern approaches by widening the aims of the discipline
Classical matters
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Mediterranean survey and the city
The Mediterranean, and especially Greece, provides fine conditions for field-survey - long and intense human occupation, good surface exposure, and distinctive, diagnostic ceramics. Where the Classical authors are conspicuously reticent about the countryside, field-survey can provide a rural picture, as well as the settlement patterns of prehistory. Here, the methods of field-survey return from the countryside to look at the cities, formerly the …
Off-Site Pottery Distributions
An Archaeology of Greece
Les origines du culte des héros dans la Grèce antique
Qu’est-ce que la société grecque exigeait consciemment de ses héros ? Au premier abord, la réponse sera : très peu de chose. Il n’était pas indispensable qu’ils aient mené une vie de héros, ou même qu’ils aient existé. Comme de nombreux exemples l’indiquent, lorsqu’un héros n’existait pas, il fallait l’inventer. Même dans les cas où tous s’accordaient sur l’existence d’un héros, il n’était pas nécessaire qu’on lui attribue de grands exploits pers…
The Boeotia Project
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Archaische Siedlungen in Griechenland
A Liberating Event
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Homer and the Artists
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