Back MatterSource: Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 25,No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1956)Published by: The American School of Classical Studies at AthensStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/147108 .

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CORINTH RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED BY

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

VOLUME I, PART IV

THE SOUTH STOA AND ITS ROMAN SUCCESSORS By OSCAR BRONEER

With this volume the publication of the buildings surrounding the Agora of Corinth, begun in earlier parts of Volume I, is continued; all structures on the south side are included. After a discussion of the fragmentary evidence for several buildings of the Greek period which were swept away by the South Stoa and of water works which precede it, the South Stoa is treated in detail. Careful description of all the remains, both those in situ and re-used blocks, forms the basis of the reconstruction of this extensive 2-storey building of the Srd quarter of the 4th century B.C. which stretched the full length of the south side of the Agora and, more than any other single building, established the size and shape of the Corinthian Agora in the six centuries of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. It emerges as one of the outstanding creations of Greek civic architecture. One of the largest secular buildings in Greece, it appears to have been planned as a Grand Hotel to accommodate delegates to the Hellenic league and the many other visitors at the time Corinth served as the capital of the Greek world, united for a brief era. After the destruction of Corinth, it remained comparatively undamaged and was taken over by the Roman colony as the seat of its administrative offices. Gradually, over the course of four centuries of the Roman empire, into the shops of the ground floor (the second-storey by now destroyed or removed) were built various buildings, including a bouleuterion, a fountain house, a bathing establishment, a public latrine.

Of unusual value and significance in the study of Greek architecture is the material here set forth, offering evidence for new conceptions of planning and design and hitherto unknown types of interior installation in the standard stoa plan in the Greek period, as well as new light on the effects of the union of Greek and Roman architectural traditions in Imperial times.

Published March 1955. xix + 167 pages with 67 figures in the text, frontispiece, 1 color plate, 54 half tone plates, and 22 plans. Quarto. Cloth. $15.00.

GENNADEION MONOGRAPHS IV

CASTLES OF THE MOREA By KEVIN ANDREWS

Among the treasures in the Gennadius Library in Athens is a set of forty drawings, mostly plans, but some elevations, of the castles of the Peloponnesos which were in Venetian hands from ca. 1685-1715. Many of them carry the arms of Francesco Grimani and probably most of them were made to accompany his reports to the Venetian Senate while he was Provveditore Generale del'Armi in Morea in 1699-1701. Using these drawings as a starting point, the author has made a study of 16 castles of the Peloponnesos, that of Chalkis, and that of Canea.

After an introduction which summarizes the history of the Peloponnesos from late classical to modem times, there is given for each castle 1) an account of the siege in which it fell to the armies of the Holy League in the campaigns of 1685-1692, 2) a recapitulation of its history from its earliest known beginnings to its last military engagement, and 3) an architectural description (copiously illustrated) of the castle as it stands today, in which attempt is made to date the various sections. The Conclusion summarizes the evidence for the architectural styles that have been identified with the several periods from the Early Byzantine to the Late Venetian. The forty Griman'i drawings are catalogued in detail. A Chronology of the Morea and Related Events in the Levant completes the volume.

This volume not only presents the history of mediaeval Greece in a different form which will prove useful and entertaining to scholars and laymen alike, but it offers a major contribution to the study of military architecture and of mediaeval types of construction. The publication of the Grimani plans is an addition to the Venetian archives.

Published September 1953. xix 274 pages, 231 illustrations in the text, 40 plate. Quarto. Hlalf cloth. $15.00.

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

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NEW PUBLICATIONS OF

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

HESPERIA SUPPLEMENT X

SMALL OBJECTS FROM THE PNYX: II By LUCY TALCOTT, BARBARA PHILIPPAKI, G. ROGER EDWARDS, VIRGINIA R. GRACE

This volume completes the publication (begun in Supplement VII) of the objects found in the excava- tions of the Pnyx hill in Athens conducted between 1931 and 1937 under the joint auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Greek government and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. It includes three parts: I Figured Pottery, II Hellenistic Pottery, III Stamped Wine Jar Fragments.

Of the 331 fragments of vases catalogued in Part I, only 16 are black-figured (including Panathenaic amphorae) and three have plastic decoration; the others are all red-figured and the majority of them come from a filling of the time of the rebuilding of the Assembly Place in the third quarter of the fourth century B.C. They are arranged by shape. A brief outline of the development of the coarser fourth-century styles is given in the introduction. The 122 fragments catalogued in Part II are from Megarian bowls or their moulds and two stacking rings; they seem to be the refuse from a potter's workshop and give evidence for technique. The catalogue of Part III includes Thasian, Rhodian, Knidian, Pontic, Chian and Lagynos, Corcyrean (?), Parian, Parmeniskos Group, Coan, Latin stamped, Imperial and Byzantine handles; each class has an introduction emphasizing the new contributions of this material. For each part there is a bibliography, concordance, and Index.

New chronological evidence for fourth-century pottery and for amphora handles gives this volume special significance. The illustration of every figured fragment illumines fourth-century coarse wares; both subject matter and technique of Megarian bowls are further clarified, and new information regarding certain classes of stamped handles, especially Thasian, Knidian and Rhodian, is offered.

Published February, 1956. ix + 189 pages, 7 figures in the text, 1 chart, 80 collotype plates. Quarto. Paper. $7.50.

THE ATHENIAN AGORA RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED BY

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

VOLUME II

C OINS FROM THE ROMAN THROUGH THE VENETIAN PERIOD

By MARGARET THOMPSON

The 37,090 catalogued coins from the last century of the Roman Republic to the declining years of the Republic of Venice which were found in the excavation of the Athenian Agora between 1931 and 1949 are treated here. They are tabulated in an abbreviated catalogue form to which is added commentary on all the issues of special interest or to the understanding of which the Agora material makes a contribution. The Introduction presents a brief summary of the historical picture of the coinage of Athens through the centuries concerned and its relation to other archaeological evidence. A table of coinage ratios for each reign in the Roman and Byzantine periods illumines the picture particularly clearly. The evidence for the mints which supplied Athens at various periods is especially significant. A numerical summary and an Index of Rulers and of Mints complete the volume.

The commentary includes valuable discussions of the new evidence offered by these coins for new types, for new mints striking known types, for new formls of mint marks, for the location of the second Asia mint of Valerian, for the location of the mints which struck the " Vandalic " issues, and, especially important, for the dating of the Byzantine anonymous issues.

Published May 1954. x + 19292 pages, 4 collotype plates. Quarto. Cloth. $5.00.

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