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Title

Sandy Pylos : an archaeological history from Nestor to Navarino / edited by Jack L. Davis ; with contributions by Susan E. Alcock ... [et al.].

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Davis, Jack L.
• Alcock, Susan E.

Description

xliii, 342 p. : ill., maps, photogr.; 23 cm.

Summary

Pylos is a natural harbor located on the southwestern coast of the Peloponnesian Peninsula of Greece. Homer's Odyssey describes "Sandy Pylos" as the seat of King Nestor, who welcomed Telemachos as he searched for his father, Odysseus, ten years after the Trojan War. Millennia later, modern Greece won its independence from Turkey there in the 1827 naval battle of Navarino. This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the Stone Age to the present. Designed for general readers and travelers interested in ancient Greece, as well as scholars, it presents the findings of a consortium of archaeologists, natural scientists, historians, and art historians who joined forces to study the history of not just one archaeological site, but of an entire landscape, and not just in a single period, but at all times in the past. This approach, based on understanding a whole regional system over an extended time from many disciplinary perspectives, represents the state-of-the-art in archaeological research. It clearly demonstrates how historical and archaeological evidence can be synthesized to offer richer insights into the past.

Subject

• 1827
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Messēnia
• Navarino, Battle of, Pylos, Greece, 1827
• Messēnia (Greece) > Antiquities
• Messēnia (Greece) > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• 'Timeline': p. [307]-309.
• 'Sources of quotations': p. [311]-314.
• 'List of figures': p. [xi]-xvii.
• Contributors include: S.E. Alcock, M. Antoniou, J. Bennet, J.L. Davis, S.E.J. Gerstel, C.G. Griebel, A.B. Harrison, S. Heath, K. Kaloyerakou, A. Kampke, Y.G. Lolos, M.C. Nelson, C.W. Shelmerdine, N. Spencer, D. Stone, C. Watkinson, S. Yazvenko, E. Zangger.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-320) and index (p. [321]-342).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Glimpses of Messenia past / Jack L. Davis -- The environmental setting / Eberhard Zangger -- The physical scientist's role in regional archaeology / Eberhard Zangger -- From pollen to plants / Sergei Yazvenko -- The history of archaeological investigation in Messenia / Nigel Spencer -- The discovery of the palace of Nestor / Jack L. Davis.
• Marinatos in Pylos / Yannos G. Lolos -- The palace and its dependencies / Jack L. Davis -- The port of Nestor / Eberhard Zangger -- Mycenaean burial at Pylos / Yannos G. Lolos -- The palace and its operations / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine -- The Ano Englianos hilltop after the palace / Charles G. Griebel and Michael C. Nelson -- The perfumed-oil industry / Cynthia W/ Shelmerdine.
• The Linear B archives and the kingdom of Nestor III / John Bennet -- The Prap Survey's contribution / John Bennet -- Umme and Nichoria / Cynthia W. Shelmerdine -- After the palace : the early "history" of Messenia / Ann B. Harrison -- Nichoria : an Early Iron Age village in Messenia / Nigel Spencer -- The battle of Sphacteria, 425 B.C. / Nigel Spencer.
• Liberation and conquest : Hellenistic and Roman Messenia / Susan E. Alcock -- Dialiskari : a Late Roman villa on the Messenian coast / David Stone and Axel Kampke -- Power from the dead : tomb cult in postliberation Messenia / Susan E. Alcock -- Bouka / Ann B. Harrison -- Medieval Messenia / Sharon E.J. Gerstel.
• The estates of Niccolò Acciaiuoli / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Venetian Methoni, Modon / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Byzantine sgraffito ware / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- The Second Ottoman Period and the Greek Revolution / Jack L. Davis -- Hasanaga : a glimpse into the Ottoman countryside / Susan E. Alcock -- The battle of Navarino / Charles Watkinson.
• From Pausanias to the present / Jack L. Davis -- Messenia's multiple pasts / Jack L. Davis -- Computers and maps at Prap / Sebastian Heath -- A fieldwalker's perspective on Prap / Maria Antoniou and Kalliope Kaloyerakou.

ISBN

• 0292715951 ( pbk. alk. paper)
• 0292715943 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97040652^

OCLC

• 37663433
• SCSB-10093773

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library