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Subject(s)

• Commerce—History—To 500 [Browse]
• Consumption (Economics)—Social aspects—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Pottery, Greek—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Pottery, Ancient—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Mediterranean Region—Commerce—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Mediterranean Region—Antiquities [Browse]

Series

• Routledge monographs in classical studies ; 17 [More in this series]
• Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies [More in this series]

Summary note

"Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people who were not Greek decided to acquire them. This new approach includes discussion of the ways in which objects take on different meanings in new contexts, the linkages between the consumption of goods and identity construction, and the utility of objects for signaling positive information about their owners to their community. The study includes a database of almost 24,000 artifacts from more than 230 sites in Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, and Germany. This data was mapped and analyzed using geostatistical techniques to reveal different patterns of consumption in different places and at different times. The development of the new approaches explored in this book has resulted in a shift away from reliance on the preserved fragments of ancient Greek authors' descriptions of western Europe, remains of monumental buildings, and major artworks, and toward investigation of social life and more prosaic forms of material culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Image Credits; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Greek Pottery in New Contexts; 2 Greek Colonization in the West: A Historical and Cultural Survey; 3 Comparison of Significant Sites; 4 Developing a Theoretical Basis for Understanding Consumption; 5 Greek Pottery at Home and in the West; 6 Analysis of the Dataset; 7 Interpreting the Evidence: Consumerism, Signaling, and Identity; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 0-367-86645-5
• 1-317-81283-2
• 1-315-81717-9
• 1-317-81284-0

OCLC

865332055

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315817170

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