Archaeologies of power in the Greek city state
Transcript of Archaeologies of power in the Greek city state
Archaeologies of power in the polis
Classical Archaeology Seminar, Oxford
Monday 10 March 2014, 5 pm
Ioannou Centre, Oxford
John Ma Corpus Chris6 College, Oxford Faculty of Classics, Oxford University [email protected]
Priene — Der Markt. Aus: M. Schede, Die Ruinen von Priene. Kurze Beschreibung. de Gruyter, 1964. (Verb. Auflage). Priene — The Market-place. (M. Schede). Priene — Le Marché. (M. Schede).
POST CARD Carte Postale Postkarte Dear both,—Thanks for the invite to speak at the Mon seminar . Not sure what to say ! I could talk about the chequer “Hippodamian” plans and relation to democracy ( but see Shipley on Hoepfner and SChwadner etc ) . Maybe Priene ? I could also present my recent book on honorific statues, ifyou think not too boring ! But am no archaeologist . Though of course after all those years The main problems are ( I think ): first a substantive one ( contribution made of archaeology to debates re nature of the polis as state, and about elitism vs “democracy” ( ? ),— second, a methodological one, namely how to relate arch. evid. to litt,, doc, etc.— third, a theoretical one, namely how to talk about social and complexity ( paradox not enough ). At first I thought was goingto get tie myself into terrible knots but now it seems to me that there is some way out. My position on the polis— that it is a state, end as such P T O
PROF A. WILSON
M E G A L I B R E T A N I A
PROF N. PURCELL
Classics Centre St Giles,
Oxford