The Political Geography of Attica in the Middle and the Late Bronze Age

Papadimitriou, Nikolas; Cosmopoulos, Michael B.

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“…The central Mesogeia Plain and coasts of eastern Attica were home to fairly dense occupation in the Bronze Age, which is well documented by the volume and quality of archaeological fieldwork conducted by the Ephorate of Antiquities in recent decades (see, e.g., Kakavogianni 2009;Vasilopoulou and Katsarou-Tzeveleki 2009;Andrikou 2015;Stefanis 2015;Papadimitriou et al 2020). An important cluster of sites has been detected in the vicinity of Spata, located in the center of the plain.…”

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“…Nevertheless, extensive archaeological work has been carried out over centuries by topographers, explorers, and (especially) the Greek Archaeological Service (see, e.g., Revett 1762-1816;Leake 1821;Traill 1975;Osborne 1985;Goette 2001;Lohmann and Mattern 2010). Now is an especially important time for the study of early Attica, marked by the recent publication of several important volumes on the prehistory and early history of Athens and Attica (Privitera 2013;Papadopoulos and Smithson 2017;Doronzio 2018;Dimitriadou 2019;Graml, Doronzio, and Capozzoli 2019;Papadimitriou et al 2020). New survey projects at Thorikos, Porto Rafti, and Aphidna also promise to shed much new light on the regional dynamics of eastern Attica in the Late Bronze Age (see table 3).…”

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“…This should not, of course, be the basis of an archaeological history, and in recent years, archaeologists have increasingly questioned the idea of a unified Attica in the Bronze Age. They have done so based on distinct and impressive concentrations of finds at several other prominent sites, most notably Eleusis, Thorikos, and Marathon (see, e.g., Stubbings 1947;Papadopoulos and Kontorli-Papadopoulou 2014;Cosmopoulos 2014Cosmopoulos , 2015Papadimitriou 2017;Papadimitriou and Cosmopoulos 2020).…”

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“…Continuity at most of these sites from the Early Mycenaean period suggests that their rise cannot be linked to a particular palatial center, as we saw in Boeotia. There is in fact some decline observed in certain communities in LH IIIB, which has led some scholars to suggest a centralization of regional resources at Athens, though this in itself does not constitute evidence for regional integration (Papadimitriou and Cosmopoulos 2020). Supposing Athens did expand its influence beyond the Athenian basin at some point in the Late Bronze Age, it is interesting that the same territorial model applied to Thebes would put Thorikos and Marathon outside its influence and Eleusis on its outskirts (see map 11).…”

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece

Knodell¹

2021

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IllustrationsFIGURES 1. Nested (but often overlapping) scales of social and spatial units 20 2. Line graph and table of number of sites by period, by region, in central Greece 44 3. Comparative sizes of Mycenaean palaces 72 4. Some lesser-known tholoi of central Greece 87 5. LH IIIC pottery with seafaring, siege, and feasting scenes 130 6. Toumba building and cemetery at Lefkandi 163 7. Examples of Geometric pottery with early writing and figural scenes 221 MAPS xiv Preface and Acknowledgementsto the Mediterranean? How can archaeological analysis cross these scales? How do the trajectories of early Greek societies relate to those of other human groups (or not)? These questions are necessarily broad, and in this book I have aimed to address them in a way that will resonate with archaeologists interested in other parts of the world as well. With this in mind, I set out to write an archaeological history relevant to people working in a variety of disciplinary traditions-archaeologists and historians of ancient Greece, as well as anthropological archaeologists concerned with the broader archaeology of complex societies.The arguments in this book are built on the achievements of generations of previous scholars. I hope to do justice to their work in discussing it here, incorporating it into new analyses or visualizations, or reframing it in new interpretations. Even if I am in occasional disagreement with these scholars, I have tremendous respect for the efforts of fieldwork, interpretation, and publication that have allowed for the type of synthesis presented here. This book deals with a broad range of evidence and ideas, and it is inevitable that I have gotten some of it wrong. There are certainly sites, discoveries, or interpretations that I have overlooked, and the relevant dataset is ever evolving. Nevertheless, I hope to have provided some new insights concerning early Greece and the Mediterranean world, in ways that will be useful to other scholars as well.My interests in early Greece and the archaeology of complex societies were fos-

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“… 2 Mountjoy (1995) 13–14; most recently on the absence of a palace centre on the Acropolis, Papadimitriou (2017), who convincingly embeds the Acropolis in the Attic settlement structure of the time. …”

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Wandering maidens in the Acropolis Propylaia: some considerations on the spatial setting of the cults of the Charites, Artemis and Hermes, their administration and related cult images

Graml

2022

J. Hell. Stud.

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This paper aims to develop a holistic view on the cults of the Charites, Artemis and Hermes which can plausibly be located in the Acropolis Propylaia. Based on the combined analysis of the spatial and architectural setting, which changed in the course of the erection of the Mnesiklean Propylaia in 437–432 BC, along with the imagery and textual evidence for these cults, I propose that due to the altered spatial distribution and the rotated building axes, initially separate cults were fused together. Consequently, iconographical shifts occur in the modes of depiction of these three divinities. The Charites, who were attached in Archaic imagery to Hermes, in the Classical period become iconographically intertwined with Artemis. The iconographic shift is detectable especially in the new cult images1 for Hermes Propylaios and Artemis Epipyrgidia with the Charites, which had been created by the sculptor Alkamenes, presumably by order of the Athenian state. This article should not be seen as a contribution to the analysis of copies (Kopienkritik) for known statue types or an architectural study; instead, its focus lies in the concepts of visualization of divine images, which were developed for a highly specific spatial setting in the cultic landscape of the Athenian Acropolis.

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Athens, Prehistoric and Early Iron Age

Damme¹

2021

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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Athens has been continuously occupied since the Neolithic period. During the Late Bronze Age, the Acropolis featured a Cyclopean fortification and numerous wealthy chamber tombs. Shortly after 1200 bce , the community suffered a major decline in population and for around a century the population declined. During the Protogeometric and Geometric periods, Athens experienced a sustained period of growth that saw a series of small settlement nuclei around the Acropolis grow and merge into a single large urban center. The same periods saw the emergence of the first public cults as well as the introduction of alphabetic script.

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The Political Geography of Attica in the Middle and the Late Bronze Age

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Societies in Transition in Early Greece

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Wandering maidens in the Acropolis Propylaia: some considerations on the spatial setting of the cults of the Charites, Artemis and Hermes, their administration and related cult images

Athens, Prehistoric and Early Iron Age

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