Art and the early Greek state
Subtitle: an interpretive archaeology
By: Michael Shanks.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Series: New studies in archaeology; New studies in archaeology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: City-states -- Greece; Social archaeology -- Greece -- Corinth; Art -- Greece -- Corinth; Archaeology -- Methodology; Corinth (Greece) -- Antiquities; Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C
Other titles: Art and the Greek city state.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The design of archaic Korinth: the question of a beginning and an interpretive archaeology; title: 2. Craft production in the early city state: some historical and material contexts; title: 3. Early archaic Korinth: design and style; title: 4. Consumption: perfume and violence in a Sicilian cemetery; title: 5. Trade and the consumption of travel; title: 6. Art, design and the constitutive imagination in the early city state.