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The empire that the Athenians established in the years after 478 BC was an entirely new phenomenon in the history of Greece, and the basis of much of the brilliant development of Athenian culture in the fifth century. Its growth and collapse was the key event in the history of the period, after the defeat of the Persian invasion. Yet this important historical phenomenon remains baffling to study. New developments in various fields have made urgent a revision of existing approaches, which largely originated in the first half of the last century. Advances in archaeology have hugely extended the possibilities of writing an archaeology of the empire. The accepted chronology of many key inscriptions has been powerfully challenged, so that new narrative reconstructions become possible. Relevant new documents in languages such as Lycian have become available. Understanding of the Persian empire which was the parallel, and in a sense the model, with which the Athenian empire interacted has been transformed in the last quarter century. Broader developments in historiography (microhistory; history from below; and, post-colonial theory) invite us to pose new questions.The aim of this collection is not to offer a final word on any of the problems, but to give a sense of the possibility of a new generation of studies of the empire.
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My BA Dissertation. Spring 2015
2012, Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis: Fourth Century BC to Second Century AD
2014, Inventive Inscriptions – the Organization of Epigraphic Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (special issue of the Journal of the History of Collections)
In this paper, I study the emergence and advancement of epigraphic studies in roughly the first forty years following the foundation of the modern Greek state. The main protagonists – most of whom remain unknown outside Greece – are introduced, and their epigraphic output in its multiple manifestations is examined: the recording and analysis of inscriptions, the publication of articles and monographs, and the creation and protection of epigraphic collections. My study is contextualized by examining contemporary issues of ethnic identity and state-institution formation, as well as questions of interface amongst the Greek intellectuals themselves on the one hand, and between them and their European counterparts on the other. Ultimately, however, an attempt is made to understand the form and content that early epigraphic studies acquired in the Greek-speaking world, and the extent to which Greek scholarship contributed to the emerging field of epigraphy as it materialized with the publication of the early epigraphic corpora.
2007, Mediterranean Historical Review
2013, M.M. Miles (ed.), Autopsy in Athens. Recent Archaeological Work on Athens and Attica. Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2015.
2015
This book presents papers by fifteen scholars at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens on the topography, monuments, sanctuaries and rituals of ancient Athens.
2015, Autopsy in Athens. Recent Archaeological Research on Athens and Attica. Ed. Margaret M. Miles. Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2015: 163-180.
The focus of this paper is the modern commentary on an unusual double stoa at Thorikos in Attica, built in the late 5th century BC. Modified drawings are presented here with a new detail reconstructed: a central doorway in the crosswall. Parts of this stoa were taken into the Agora of Athens and re-used in a Roman temple; they provide the architectural details of the superstructure of the original building. The stoa is then considered within the development of ancient Greek stoas.
This article argues that Bronze and Iron Age monuments in Anatolia were of intense interest to Greek historians and to the communities and individuals who lived in their vicinity. It focuses on two ancient historians’ discussions of pre-classical rock-cut reliefs to highlight the debates among ancient interpreters about the origins of such remains and their significance in local and universal history. Our analysis challenges Arnaldo Momigliano’s clearcut distinction between antiquarianism and history, as well as Elias Bickerman’s influential notion that the only “prehistory” available to the Greeks and their neighbors was that imagined by the Greeks.
2017, Athens, Thebes and Plataia and the end of the sixth century BCE
One of the key events in the relations between the Athenians and Thebans was the Plataian decision to align themselves with the Athenians at the end of the sixth century BCE. This decision shook up the contemporary political landscape and proved to be a source of hostility between the two neighbouring polities throughout the fifth and fourth centuries. The orthodox view holds that the original alignment took place in 519 during the Peisistratid tyranny, based on the date given by Thucydides 3.68.5. This date, in the mind of some scholars, seems contradictory with the story of the Plataian alignment as given by Herodotus (6.108.1-6.). This inconsistency resulted in a search for alternatives that fit the Herodotean narrative better. To accommodate this change, they relied on emendating the Thucydidean text, but there is no sign of corruption in this part. Emendation of a text is best avoided, although the controversy merits attention. Therefore, in this article it will be argued that the two narratives – the Thucydidean and the Herodotean – need to be separated. What follows is a renewed chronology of Plataian-Athenian relations. The orthodox date (519) was the date of an original Peisistratid-Plataian alliance that did not lead to hostilities with Thebes. Instead, it is in the context of the foundation of the Athenian democracy and the subsequent clashes with Thebes after 507/6 that the Herodotean narrative should be placed. * First and foremost I would like express my gratitude to Albert Schachter, who made invaluable suggestions to improve this article. Another note goes out to Fabienne Marchand, who pointed to numerous mistakes in the article. A further acknowledgement is to professor Nikolaos Papazarkadas, who suggested the similarities between sympoliteia and the Eleutherai inscription mentioned later on. I would also to thank the audience at Durham, where an earlier version of this paper has been given, for their comments. A last note of gratitude goes to the anonymous reviewer, whose advice radically improved this article. Finally, I would like to thank the Swiss National Science Foundation for generously supporting me to carry out research on Athenian-Boiotian relations.
2010, Bulletin of The Institute of Classical Studies
This paper begins by assessing the non-Athenian epigraphical evidence for state regulations in the fifth-century Aegean, and in so doing poses questions about the nature, extent, and fluctuation of the Athenian impact on the legalistic and epigraphic habits of her allies. In the second part of the paper, on the basis of a close examination of the Athenian regulations for Erythrai, I shall raise and investigate the possibility that certain Athenian regulations were couched in a rhetoric that would have seemed familiar to their allied readers.
The aim of this article is to show that the reason for large numbers of Athenian tetradrachms being part of hoards buried in southern and south-eastern Asia Minor, mainly Cilicia, is related to the supply of timber for the Athenian fleet. From the reign of Perdikkas II to the beginning of the Hellenistic period, Athens was only able to import timber from Macedonia for a very limited number of years and so Macedonia could not be Athens’s regular timber supplier.
A Matthaiou & R Pitt (eds.), Athenaion Episkopos: Studies in Honour of Harold B Mattingly, Athens, 2014, pp.339-347
This paper discusses Archaic Athenian fractional coinage and suggests that 'wheel' types were used alongside early owls.
Summary of the second and final season of the Vapheio-Palaiopyrgi Survey Project.
2007, The Classical Quarterly
2009
I have always been fascinated by politics – not parties or elections, but the play of power, legitimacy, and justice. Politics, in this extended sense, is at once a practical issue, an interpretative problem, and a moral concern: understanding any given political system or regime requires describing how it actually works, explaining why it works that way, and offering defensible reasons for why it ought to be otherwise (if in fact it ought).
"Review of: 1) D. Demetriou, Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 2) J. Skinner, The Invention of Greek Ethnography: Ethnography and History from Homer to Herodotus. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 3) E. R. M. Dusinberre, Empire, Authority and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 4) M. A. Sears, Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 5) D. Kamen, Status in Classical Athens. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. 6) D. M. Pritchard, Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 7) M. R. Christ, The Limits of Altruism in Democratic Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 8) J. Roisman, Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. 9) P. Martzavou and N. Papazarkadas, eds., Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-Classical Polis: Fourth Century BC to Second Century AD. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 10) E. A. Meyer.The Inscriptions of Dodona and a New History of Molossia. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2013. 11) C. Prêtre, Kosmos et kosmema: les offrandes de parure dans les inventaires déliens. Kernos. Supplément, 27. Athens: Centre d'Etude de la Religion Grecque Antique, 2012. 12) E. Baragwanath and M. de Bakker, eds., Myth, Truth and Narrative in Herodotus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 13) J. Beneker, The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. "
The unique electrum stater of Mytilene in the British Museum is usually thought to be imitating Kyzikene electrum and to belong to the context of the Mytilenaean revolt of 428/7. However, it should instead be compared to certain issues of electrum staters from Lampsakos and Chios. Hoard evidence in the case of Lampsakos and detailed knowledge of the series in the case of Chios mean that we can date these issues (and therefore that of Mytilene) to the last decade of the 5th century. A unique silver tetradrachm of Chios and an associated issue of drachms which came to light in 2001 can also be associated with the Chian issue of electrum staters. Several passages of Xenophon provide likely contexts from 406/5 for all five issues and illustrate how Spartan efforts to finance their fleet grew in sophistication over the course of the Ionian War.
2014, Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century B.C.
2011, Ancient West & East
2017
How do societies remember their past? And how did they do so before the age of computers, printing, writing? This book takes stock of earlier work on memory in the fields of history and the social sciences. Our collection also takes a new look at how past and present social groups have memorialized events and rendered them durable through materializations: contributors ask how processes and incidents perceived as negative and disruptive are nonetheless constitutive of group identities. Papers also contrast the monumentalizing treatment given to singular events imbued with a hegemonic meaning to more localized, diverse memory places and networks. As case studies show, such memory scapes invite divergent, multivocal and subversive narratives. Various kinds of these imagined geographies lend themselves to practices of manipulation, preservation and control. The temporal scope of the volume reaches from the late Neolithic to the recent past, resulting in a long-term and multi-focal perspective that demonstrates how the perception of past events changes, acquires new layers and is molded by different groups at different points in time. As several contributions show, these manipulations of the past do not always produce the anticipated results, however. Attempts at “post-factual history” are countered by the socially distributed, but spatially and materially anchored nature of the very process of memorialization.
2014, Representation, Narrative, and Function
Gros, J.-S. 2014. La diffusion des grandes productions céramiques dans les Cyclades : un regard diachronique, Bonin, G. & E. Le Quéré (eds), Pouvoirs, îles et mer. Formes et modalités de l’hégémonie dans les Cyclades antiques (viie s. a.C.-iiie s. p.C.), Bordeaux, 287-293.
2019, Greeks who dwelt beyond the sea: people, places, monuments. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 333.
https://www.habelt.de Nováková, L. 2019. Greeks who dwelt beyond the sea: people, places, monuments. Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 333. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt. ISBN 978-3-7749-4216-5. The Greek civilization, whose legacy remains visible to the present day, developed in several places on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The Greeks often came into contact with different, sometimes significantly older and more developed cultures that helped them to advance in the sciences, arts and trade. One such crossroads of civilizations was Anatolia, a land that was the literal meeting place of east and west with an incredibly diverse population. This was reflected in the diversity of its cultures, languages and religions. There is a growing volume of new research – papers, articles and monographs – aimed at determining at least in part how these ancient societies defined themselves. The answer to this relatively complex question can only be sought in the written and archaeological evidence. We can get to know the Hellenes from written sources and their unique artistic heritage, while grave art helps to fill in the rich mosaic of their Anatolian neighbors. The term “Greeks dwelling beyond the sea” is a paraphrase of the name for the Greeks in foreign sources (Yaunā), which referred to the inhabitants of the distant lands beyond the western frontier of the Persian Empire. In this case, the term refers to the Greeks who crossed the Aegean Sea and settled on the Anatolian mainland and nearby islands. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2020/2020.09.34/