Sarah P Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah P Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah P |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0577-9909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mycenaeans in Messenia: Princes of Pylos, from Kalamata to Los Angeles and Athens
New discoveries from Mycenaean Pylos in southwest Greece were the focus of an exhibition inaugurated in early 2025 at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia (Kalamata). This exhibition traveled to the J. Paul Getty Museum Villa in Los Angeles in June of the same year for an expanded display, before returning to Greece in 2026 to be on view at the Hellenic National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The exhibition was unusual for its generous display…
Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art. By S. Rebecca Martin
The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art. By S. Rebecca Martin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 282, illus. $59.95
Material Evidence: Looking for Slaves? The Archaeological Record: Greece
Unlike in the study of Roman slavery (Joshel and Peterson 2014), the analysis of archaeological evidence for Greek slavery is far more challenging (I. Morris 2011), if we hope to be able to identify slaves, their labour, and their living spaces, in the ancient material record. Rather than trying to identify figures in Greek art as unfree in status, locating their place of work and living quarters in excavated structures, or distinguishing slave b…
Reciprocity: A Response
This response to a set of wide-ranging papers on the dimensions of reciprocity in Bronze Age Greece introduces three areas for further research, in order to expand the framework in terms of gender, space, and time. These include greater emphasis on the role of women and gender relations in the circulation of labor, land, goods, and prestige; the question of reciprocal relations beyond the Aegean; and, last but not least, the afterlife of prehisto…
Dairy Queen: Churns and milk products in the Aegean Bronze Age
This article assembles examples of an unusual vessel found in domestic contexts of the Early Bronze Age around the Aegean and in the Eastern Mediterranean. Identified as a “barrel vessel” by the excavators of Troy, Lesbos (Thermi), Lemnos (Poliochni), and various sites in the Chalkidike, the shape finds its best parallels in containers identified as churns in the Chalcolithic Levant, and related vessels from the Eneolithic Balkans. Levantine para…
Homer and the Near East
In their historical and literary setting, the poems of Homer and the epic cycle belong to the eastern Mediterranean: they share narrative elements with neighboring cultures since the Bronze Age, and show specific connections to Near Eastern history and mythology. Evidence for these connections has increased since the nineteenth century, with the discovery of Near Eastern texts and of archaeological evidence for the transmission of ideas. This cha…
Prehistoric Torone and the Chalkidike: The Northern Aegean in the Bronze Age
Journal Article PREHISTORIC TORONE AND THE CHALKIDIKE: THE NORTHERN AEGEAN IN THE BRONZE AGE Get access SARAH MORRIS SARAH MORRIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, December 2009, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2009.tb00764.x Published: 10 June 2010
Reconstructing the prehistoric burial tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania
When a monument is excavated it removes a piece of cultural property from the landscape. So modern thinking in field archaeology rightly includes the maintenance of monumentality in its initial design. Better still if that value is enhanced. Reconstructing their excavated tumulus in Albania, the authors found they could leave the monument in place and give it added value from the new knowledge of its relevance to local people, not to mention the …
Excavations at the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania: A Preliminary Report for the 2004-2005 Seasons
Exploration of an Early Iron Age burial tumulus at Lofkënd in Albania offered a unique opportunity to examine the formative period immediately preceding the founding of Greek colonies on the coast and how such a prominent burial place functioned in relation to a particular group, or groups, of people in Illyria. We anticipated that the investigation of a major burial site predating both the colonial foundations and the majority of the so-called p…
Greek Towers and Slaves: An Archaeology of Exploitation
This article reviews the archaeological and documentary evidence for stone towers built in rural and urban Greece in classical and Hellenistic times. The history of scholarship reveals how prevailing agendas have unduly influenced interpretation. A new contextual and transregional approach situates these structures more securely within the exploitation of the Greek landscape through extractive and productive technologies, and emphasizes their rel…
Frogs around the Pond? Cultural Diversity in the Ancient World and the New Millennium
This essay examines relations between Greeks and non-Greeks in the eastern Mediterranean in three case studies. A Geometric clay pyxis from Athens is compared to an older Egyptian granary, to consider how shapes, images, and beliefs might travel across time and place. In the second case, a famous image of Artemis from Ephesus is traced to Anatolian traditions of the second millennium. Finally, the role of myth, or the narrative behind such images…
Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Walter Burkert , Peter Bing
The Towers of Ancient Leukas: Results of a Topographic Survey, 1991-1992
Sarah P. Morris, The Towers of Ancient Leukas: Results of a Topographic Survey, 1991-1992, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2001), pp. 285-347
Early Greek Vase Painting: 11Th-6th Centuries B. C. By John Boardman
Greeks and Barbarians: Essays on the Interactions between Greeks and Non-Greeks in Antiquity and the Consequences for Eurocentrism . John E. Coleman and Clark A. Walz, eds
Ex Oriente Books: Near Eastern Resources for Classicists
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins
Greece and the Levant
A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry
Since their discovery in 1972, the miniature frescoes from the West House at Akrotiri have attracted scholarship largely confined to synchronic and technical studies by Minoan archaeologists. Prehistorians have pursued their specialties in these frescoes, have defended their Aegean territories along predictable lines, and have explored formal aspects of style and subject. Evolving scholarship has remained loyal to earlier interpretations, despite…
The Black and White Style: Athens and Aigina in the Orientalizing Period
The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B. C. Athens . By Dietrich von Bothmer
The Black and White Style
The Greek Way of Death
Λaσana: A Contribution to the Ancient Greek Kitchen
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins
A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry
Since their discovery in 1972, the miniature frescoes from the West House at Akrotiri have attracted scholarship largely confined to synchronic and technical studies by Minoan archaeologists. Prehistorians have pursued their specialties in these frescoes, have defended their Aegean territories along predictable lines, and have explored formal aspects of style and subject. Evolving scholarship has remained loyal to earlier interpretations, despite…
Greek Towers and Slaves: An Archaeology of Exploitation
This article reviews the archaeological and documentary evidence for stone towers built in rural and urban Greece in classical and Hellenistic times. The history of scholarship reveals how prevailing agendas have unduly influenced interpretation. A new contextual and transregional approach situates these structures more securely within the exploitation of the Greek landscape through extractive and productive technologies, and emphasizes their rel…
The Towers of Ancient Leukas: Results of a Topographic Survey, 1991-1992
Sarah P. Morris, The Towers of Ancient Leukas: Results of a Topographic Survey, 1991-1992, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2001), pp. 285-347
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
Excavations at the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania: A Preliminary Report for the 2004-2005 Seasons
Exploration of an Early Iron Age burial tumulus at Lofkënd in Albania offered a unique opportunity to examine the formative period immediately preceding the founding of Greek colonies on the coast and how such a prominent burial place functioned in relation to a particular group, or groups, of people in Illyria. We anticipated that the investigation of a major burial site predating both the colonial foundations and the majority of the so-called p…
Early Greek Vase Painting: 11Th-6th Centuries B. C. By John Boardman
The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B. C. Athens . By Dietrich von Bothmer
Greeks and Barbarians: Essays on the Interactions between Greeks and Non-Greeks in Antiquity and the Consequences for Eurocentrism . John E. Coleman and Clark A. Walz, eds
Greece and the Levant
Λaσana: A Contribution to the Ancient Greek Kitchen
Alt-Smyrna I: Wohnschichten und Athenatempel . By Ekrem Akurgal
The Black and White Style: Athens and Aigina in the Orientalizing Period
The Amasis Painter and His World: Vase-Painting in Sixth-Century B. C. Athens . By Dietrich von Bothmer
The Black and White Style
The Greek Way of Death
A Tale of Two Cities: The Miniature Frescoes from Thera and the Origins of Greek Poetry
Since their discovery in 1972, the miniature frescoes from the West House at Akrotiri have attracted scholarship largely confined to synchronic and technical studies by Minoan archaeologists. Prehistorians have pursued their specialties in these frescoes, have defended their Aegean territories along predictable lines, and have explored formal aspects of style and subject. Evolving scholarship has remained loyal to earlier interpretations, despite…
Greece and the Levant
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
Ex Oriente Books: Near Eastern Resources for Classicists
Early Greek Vase Painting: 11Th-6th Centuries B. C. By John Boardman
Greeks and Barbarians: Essays on the Interactions between Greeks and Non-Greeks in Antiquity and the Consequences for Eurocentrism . John E. Coleman and Clark A. Walz, eds
The Towers of Ancient Leukas: Results of a Topographic Survey, 1991-1992
Sarah P. Morris, The Towers of Ancient Leukas: Results of a Topographic Survey, 1991-1992, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 2001), pp. 285-347
Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Walter Burkert , Peter Bing
Frogs around the Pond? Cultural Diversity in the Ancient World and the New Millennium
This essay examines relations between Greeks and non-Greeks in the eastern Mediterranean in three case studies. A Geometric clay pyxis from Athens is compared to an older Egyptian granary, to consider how shapes, images, and beliefs might travel across time and place. In the second case, a famous image of Artemis from Ephesus is traced to Anatolian traditions of the second millennium. Finally, the role of myth, or the narrative behind such images…
Greek Towers and Slaves: An Archaeology of Exploitation
This article reviews the archaeological and documentary evidence for stone towers built in rural and urban Greece in classical and Hellenistic times. The history of scholarship reveals how prevailing agendas have unduly influenced interpretation. A new contextual and transregional approach situates these structures more securely within the exploitation of the Greek landscape through extractive and productive technologies, and emphasizes their rel…
Excavations at the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania: A Preliminary Report for the 2004-2005 Seasons
Exploration of an Early Iron Age burial tumulus at Lofkënd in Albania offered a unique opportunity to examine the formative period immediately preceding the founding of Greek colonies on the coast and how such a prominent burial place functioned in relation to a particular group, or groups, of people in Illyria. We anticipated that the investigation of a major burial site predating both the colonial foundations and the majority of the so-called p…
Reconstructing the prehistoric burial tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania
When a monument is excavated it removes a piece of cultural property from the landscape. So modern thinking in field archaeology rightly includes the maintenance of monumentality in its initial design. Better still if that value is enhanced. Reconstructing their excavated tumulus in Albania, the authors found they could leave the monument in place and give it added value from the new knowledge of its relevance to local people, not to mention the …
Prehistoric Torone and the Chalkidike: The Northern Aegean in the Bronze Age
Journal Article PREHISTORIC TORONE AND THE CHALKIDIKE: THE NORTHERN AEGEAN IN THE BRONZE AGE Get access SARAH MORRIS SARAH MORRIS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, December 2009, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2009.tb00764.x Published: 10 June 2010
Homer and the Near East
In their historical and literary setting, the poems of Homer and the epic cycle belong to the eastern Mediterranean: they share narrative elements with neighboring cultures since the Bronze Age, and show specific connections to Near Eastern history and mythology. Evidence for these connections has increased since the nineteenth century, with the discovery of Near Eastern texts and of archaeological evidence for the transmission of ideas. This cha…
Dairy Queen: Churns and milk products in the Aegean Bronze Age
This article assembles examples of an unusual vessel found in domestic contexts of the Early Bronze Age around the Aegean and in the Eastern Mediterranean. Identified as a “barrel vessel” by the excavators of Troy, Lesbos (Thermi), Lemnos (Poliochni), and various sites in the Chalkidike, the shape finds its best parallels in containers identified as churns in the Chalcolithic Levant, and related vessels from the Eneolithic Balkans. Levantine para…
Reciprocity: A Response
This response to a set of wide-ranging papers on the dimensions of reciprocity in Bronze Age Greece introduces three areas for further research, in order to expand the framework in terms of gender, space, and time. These include greater emphasis on the role of women and gender relations in the circulation of labor, land, goods, and prestige; the question of reciprocal relations beyond the Aegean; and, last but not least, the afterlife of prehisto…
Material Evidence: Looking for Slaves? The Archaeological Record: Greece
Unlike in the study of Roman slavery (Joshel and Peterson 2014), the analysis of archaeological evidence for Greek slavery is far more challenging (I. Morris 2011), if we hope to be able to identify slaves, their labour, and their living spaces, in the ancient material record. Rather than trying to identify figures in Greek art as unfree in status, locating their place of work and living quarters in excavated structures, or distinguishing slave b…
Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art. By S. Rebecca Martin
The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art. By S. Rebecca Martin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 282, illus. $59.95
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