Michael Loy

Biographic Data

ID6043349
NAMEMichael Loy
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMELoy
SIGNATURELOY M
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • John Ma, Polis. A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

    Michael LoyARTICLEJOURNAL OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY2025

    John Ma’s new magnum opus is over a decade in the making. Originally delivered as the Stanford University 2011 Eitner Lecture on the Greek city-state (pg xv), Ma’s Polis is a tour de force that seeks to undertake a penetrating new analysis of the eponymous ancient political community. Assembling an encyclopaedic quantity of evidence for ancient poleis dating between the Early Iron Age and the End of Antiquity, and weaving a new narrative about th…

  • Born-digital field survey data

    Michael Loy, Alexandra Katevaini et al.ARTICLEJOURNAL OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY2024

    Since 2021, the west part of Samos, located between Mt Karvounis and Mt Kerkis, has been under archaeological investigation by the British School at Athens, as part of the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project (WASAP).The project’s sizeable study area, covering two basins in the environs of the contemporary settlements of Karlovasi (in the north) and Marathokampos (in the south), has variously featured in ancient and Early-Modern texts and in…

  • The Coastal Landscape of West Samos in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE

    Open AccessM M T Loy, Michael LoyARTICLEThe Mariner s Mirror2024

    This article uses a combination of archaeological, environmental and historical evidence to consider where the most plausible shipping routes and landing points were around the west part of the Aegean island of Samos during the period 700-500 BCE, a time known for significant maritime activity in the region.Emerging evidence suggests that the west part of Samos, although subject year-round to strong and dangerous winds and lacking in safe anchora…

  • Eingegangene Bücher

    Open AccessSukla Chatterjee, Joanna Chojnicka et al.ARTICLEHistorische Zeitschrift2024

  • Coinage networks in fifth-century BCE Ionia

    Open AccessM M T Loy, Michael LoyARTICLEAnatolian Studies2024

    This article revisits ‘the problem of Classical Ionia’, the long-persisting idea put forward by John Manuel Cook in 1961 that Ionia experienced regional economic impoverishment in the fifth century BCE. By looking comprehensively at the dataset of coinage available from fifth-century Ionia, this article argues that there is actually significant evidence for regional networking in Classical Ionia, and that various communities, even if not continua…

  • Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece

    Open AccessM M T Loy, Michael LoyBOOKConnecting Communities in Archaic…2023

    This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify new patterns about Archaic Greece. By modelling trade routes, political alliances, and the formation of personal- and state-networks, the book sheds new light o…

  • Shedding Light on the Matter

    M M T Loy, Michael Loy et al.ARTICLEJOURNAL OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY2021Cited by: 1References: 27

    Reconstructing moments in ancient history is done most effectively when we draw together different types of evidence. Particularly given the fragmentary and random shape of our datasets, many scholars would agree that it is important to combine material – and sometimes patterns only become visible when we do so in new and experimental ways. As scholarship on ancient Greek religion has become increasingly interdisciplinary in recent years, many sc…