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NEWV PUBLICATIONS OF

TIE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

CATALOGUES OF THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY I

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE NEAR EAST MIADE* DURING THE XIX CENTURY

Being a part of a larger Catalogue of works on Geography, Voyages and Travels, in the Gennadius Library in Athens

COMPILED AND PROVIDED WITH A PREFACE AND INDEX

BY

SHIRLEY HOWARD WEBER This volume inaugurates a new series of publications in which will appear the catalogue of the col-

lectlons in the Gennadius Library in Athens. The Preface records the history of the collection made by Joannes Gennadius over a long period in his-,distinguished career of diplomat and given to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens that it might be available permanently to his native land, as a memorial to his father, George Gennadius, scholar and patriot. Of the numerous classes of material com- prising the collection, including incunabula and rare editions of the Greek Classics, Archaeology, Byzantine History and Literature, the most complete and unique sections cover the history, language and literature of the Greek War of Independence and Modern Greece, and geography and travel in Greece and the Near East from earliest times to the present. It is with this last class that the present volume of the catalogue is concerned. The items in the travel section are to appear in two volumes; this first includes those of the XIX century. Twelve hundred and six items are catalogued, the last hundred and ten mainly pictorial. The arrangement is chronological by date of publication, with cross-references to the date of travel. Brief commentary listing the places visited is added to many items by the compiler, and an Index both of authors and of topographical names makes easy reference.

This volume should prove useful not only to bibliographers and librarians, but also to all those for whom the accounts of early travelers in the Near East offer information not otherwise available on sites, manners, and customs.

Published February, 1952. x + 252 pp., frontisplece. Royal octavo. Boards. $5.00.

HESPERIA SUPPLEMENT IX

HOROI STUDIES IN MORTGAGE, REAL SECURITY, AND LAND TENURE IN ANCIENT ATHENS

By JOHN V. A. FINE

In ths volume the thirty-three new horos mortgage stones found in the Athenian Agora and two other new ones are published. To them are added references to all known previously published horos mortgage stones, with the texts quoted for all those which have appeared elsewhere than in IG.., so that a corpus of horos mortgage texts is assembled.

Preparation of commentary on the new inscriptions carried the author into a reconsideration of all evidence available for the understanding of the types of contracts involved. In chapters on Horoi, 'Y7iroOK MtirOats OtKOv, 'Arortt a 7rpotKoKa, and Hpa'as C Irt Xtaa, he reanalyses the evidence from literature, especially from the 4th century Attic orators, in the light of the new evidence offered by the inscriptions. The recent theories of Paoli and Meletopoulos regarding the nature of the contracts he analyses closely and finds untenable. Finally in the chapter on Mortgage and Land Tenure are set forth the conclusions to which the preceding study of types of contracts has led. They are in contradiction to previously accepted ideas: there is no evidence for the use of the mortgage contact i Athens before the Peoponnesian War and "'both the evidence and the significant ab3sence of evidence point to the conclusion that Attic land remained inalienable until the old taboo on aienability was gradually undermined by the terrific impact of the Peloponnesian War and the plague."'

The new evidence and its interpretation here offer an important new chapter in the study of Athenian private law and its implications for social history.

Published October, 1951. viii +216 pages, 7 collotype plates. Quarto. Paper. $7.50.

ORDERS SHIOULD BE PLACED WrITH THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STU:DIES AT ATHENS, cJo THIE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS OF

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

CORINTH RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED BY

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

VOLUME II

THE THEATRE By RICHARD STILLWELL

This volume, devoted to the theatre, continues the architectural studies of the excavations at Corinth. Following an account of the location of the theatre, set against the slope northwestward from the agora and adjoining the Odeion, and a general description of the remains, a detailed description and analysis of the theatre in each of its several periods of both Greek and Roman times is given. A restoration of the scaenae frons of the Antonine period is worked out from the fragments of the orders which remain. The paintings of hunting scenes which decorated the enclosing wall of the orchestra when it served as an arena but which have disintegrated badly since excavation are recorded in detail. All architectural blocks of any significance are inventoried. The final chapter emphasizes the significance of the Corinth theatre in the history of theatre development in all of its periods, but especially as the first example of the westem type scaenae frons in Greece.

This volume offers a welcome and important addition not only to the picture of ancient Corinth from the late 5th century B.C. through the 4th century after Christ, but also to the study of the ancient theatre in its architectural aspects.

Published April, 1952. xi + 144 pages with 103 figures (linecuts and halftones) in the text and 8 folding plans. Quarto. Cloth. $10.00.

VOLUME XII

THE MINOR OBJECTS In this volume are gathered nearly 3000 objects selected from a total of more than three times that

number, found in the general excavations at Corinth (excluding the Asklepieion, the North Cemetery, and the Potters' Quarter) from 1896 through 1938. Under the chapter headings Figurines, Vessels and Furniture, Implements and Instruments, Jewelry and Dress Accessories, Seals and Stamps, and Miscellaneous Objects are included terracotta and metal figurines; vessels of metal, glass, and stone; various furnishings; boxes and chests; keys and locks; glass panes and inlay; loom-weights and other instruments and utensils for household use; implements for personal, writing, surgical, musical, religious, military, commercial, and recreational purposes; numerous kinds of jewelry and clothing ornament; seals of metal (especially lead), stone, terracotta, and glass. The chronological range of the material is from the 8th century B.C. to the Turkish period of Greece; the largest proportion of objects belong to the Byzantine period (9th-12th cen- turies), the next largest group to the centuries of Roman rule.

Of special interest are the sections on glass vessels, on loom-weights, on finger rings, and on lead seals, which offer considerable new material from which observations of importance can be drawn. All the classes of objects, however, make additions to the understanding of private and public life both in ancient and in mediaeval Greece.

Published October, 1952. xtiii + 366 pages with 83 figures in the text and 148 collotype plates. Quarto. Cloth. $25.00.

ORDERS SHOULD BE PLACED WITH THE AMRICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS, c/o THIE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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