Greeks Overseas, The

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1964. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: With seven maps, twenty-four plates, and seventy-five text figures. BOOK NUMBER: A581. CONTENTS: List of Plates; List of Text Figures; List of Maps; Editorial Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE; Archaeological Evidence; Literary Evidence; 2. THE BACKGROUND; 3. THE EASTERN ADVENTURE; North Syria and the Empires beyond; Eastern Influence in Greece; Phrygia and Lydia; The Persians; 4. THE GREEKS IN EGYPT; Naucratis; Other Greeks in Egypt; The Persians in Egypt; Egyptian Objects and Influence in Greece; Greeks in Libya and Cyrenaica; 5. ITALY, SICILY, AND THE WEST; The Colonists; Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily; Greeks and Natives in Sicily and Italy; Western Greek Colonial Art; Coinage; Greeks and Etruscans; Greeks and Phoenicians; Greeks in France and North Spain; 6. THE NORTH AND THE BLACK SEA; Greeks in the Adriatic; Greeks on the Thracian Coast; Illyrians, Macedonians, and Thracians; The Black Sea and its Approaches; The Greek Cities; Greeks and Scythians; Athenians, Persians, and the Hellespont; Index. SYNOPSIS: This is the story of a nation on the move. It is a story which must, because it casts a fresh image of an extraordinary people, be studied by anyone who is curious about the sources of European culture, arts, and sciences. In these pages we meet Greek mercenaries crudely scratching their names on statues 700 miles up the Nile; Greek goldsmiths working on the shores of the Black Sea; Greet artists employed in the palace of the Persian king and leaving "doodles" on the walls; Greek wine-growers introducing the grape to Burgundy; Greek traders chaffering in the markets of Egypt and the Near East; and Greek colonists living at the very ends of the known world. The Oxford Reader in Classical Archaeology has sifted all the latest evidence in this masterly book. For the first time he fully demonstrates how much the Greeks owed and gave to their neighbours as they elbowed their way into the throng of older civilizations between the eight and sixth centuries B.C. John Boardman, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Reader in Classical Archaeology in the University of Oxford, was born in 1927. He was educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, then went to Athens as Student and later Assistant Director (1952-5) of the British School at Athens. From 1955 to 1959 he was Assistant Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1957, received the Cromer Greek Prize in 1959, and has been a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute since 1961. He has travelled widely in Greek lands and excavated in Smyrna, Knossos, Chios, and Libya. His previous publications include The Cretan Collection in Oxford, Island Gems, The Date of the Knossos Tablets, and various articles on the archaeology of archaic Greece. He has served as editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies since 1958.. First Edition 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.