Back MatterSource: Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 24,No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1955)Published by: The American School of Classical Studies at AthensStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/147156 .

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CORINTH RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED BY

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

VOLUME 1, 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 3rd 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 Corinith 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 efTects of the union of Greek and Romaii 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, anid 22 plans. Quarto. Cloth. $15.00.

GENNADEION MONOGRAPHS IV

CASTLES OF THE MOREA By KEVIN AINDREWS

Among the treasures in the Gennadius Library in Athens is a set of forty drawinigs, mostly plans, but some elevations, of the castles of the Peloponnesos which were in Venetian hands from ca. 1685-1715. MIany 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 dell'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 modern times, there is giveni 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 beginniiigs to its last military engagement, and i) an architectural description (copiously illustrated) of the castle as it stands today, in which attempt is made to date the various sections. The Conclusion sunmmarizes the evidence for the architectural styles that have been identified with the several periods from the Early Byzantine to the Late Venetian. The forty Grimani drawings are catalogued iin detail. A Chronology of the Morea and Related Events in the Levant completes the volume.

This v7olume not only presents the history of mediaeval Greece in a different form wlhich will prove useful and entertaining to scholars and laymen alike, but it offers a major conftribution to the study of military architecture anld of mediaeval types of construction. The publication of the Grimni plans is an addition to the Venetian archives.

Published September 1953. xix ? 274 pages, 231 illustrations in the text, 40 plates. Quarto. Half cloth. $15.00.

ORDERtS SHOULD BE PLACED WITH THE AMWERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS, c/o THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED3 STUDY, PRINCETON. NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS OF

'rHE AMEI2ICAN SCHOOT OF CLASSICAL STUTDIES AT ATIIENS

HESPERIA SUPPLEMENT X

SMALL OBJECTS FROM THE PNYX: II By Ll,C- TALCOTT, BARBARA PHILIPPAKI, G. ROGER EDWARDS, VTRGINIA R. GRACE

This volulme completes the publication (begun in Supplemeiit VII) of the objects found in the excava.- tions of lhe Pinyx hill in Athens cond(ucted betveci 198M1 an d 1937 un(ler the joint auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Gireek government and the American Schiool of Classical Studies at Athens. It includes three parts: I Figured Pottery, 1I Ilellenistic Pottery, III Stamped WViie Jar Fragments.

Of the 331 frag,mcnts of vases catalogue(d in Part I, only 16 are black-figured (includiing Painatlhenaic amphorae) and three have I)lastic decoration; the others are all red-figured and the majority of tlhemn come from a filling of the time of the rebuilding of the Assembly Place in the third quarter of the fouirth century B3.c. Tlley are arranged by shape. A brief outline of the development of the coarser fourth-century styles is giveni in tile introdluction. The 1292 fragments catalogued in Part II are from iMcgariani bo vIs or their moulds anid two stacking rings; they seem to be the refuise from a pottel's workslholp and give evilence for technique. The catalogue of Part III includes Thasiaii, Rhodian, Kniidiaii, Pontic, Chian and Lagynos, Corcyreaii (?), Parian, Parmeniskos Gioup, Coan, Latin stamped, Imperial and Byzantine lhand(les; each class has an introduction emphasizing the new contributionis of this material. For each part there is a bibliography, concor(lance, and Inidex.

Newv chroniological evidlence for fourlth-ceiitury pottery and for amphora handles gives thlis volume special significance. The illustration of every figuredl fraginent illumines fourth-century coarse wares; both subject matter anid techinique of Megarian bowls are fuirther clarified, an(l new inforimation regarding certaini classes of stamped han(dles, especially Tlhasiain, Knidliaii anid Rhodliain, is offered.

Pulblislhed( December, 1955. ix + 189 pages, 7 figrures in the text, 1 chart, 80 collotype plates. Quarto. Paper. $7 .50.

THE ATHENIAN AGORA RESULTS OF EXCAVA'IIONS CONDUCTED BY

THE A\IMERICAN SC(HOOL, OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

VOLUME 1I

COINS FROM THE ROMAN THROUGH THE VENETIAN PERIOD

By MARGARET THOMIPSON

The 37,090 catalogued coins from the last cenitury of the Roman Republic to the declining years of the Republic of Venice wlhich were found inl the excavation of the Athenian Agora betwecii 1931 and 1949 are treated here. They are tabtulated in an abbreviated catalogue formn to wh-}icie is a(ddedI commentary on all the issues of special interest or to the un(lerstandiing of wvhich the Agor,t material makes a contnil)Litio',I The Introduction presents a brief summary of the historical picture of the coinage of Athiens t1iroughli teic centuries concerned anid its relation to other archacolog-ical evidenice. A table of coinage ratios for each reign in the Roman an(d Byzaiitiie perio(ds illutinies the picture particularly clearly. The evidkeice for W}e mints which supplied Athens at variouis periocls is especially significanit. A numerical surmmary and an Iindex of Rulers and of Mints complete the volume.

The comnmentary includces valuable discuIssions of the n1ew evidence offered by the.se coins for new tvpes, for newT mints striking knowvn types, for newv forms of mlint marks, for the locationl of the second A\sia mint of Valerian,. for the location of the mints wvhich struck th1e "Vandalic " issues, and, especially importanlt, for the dlating of the Byzantine anonymous issues.

Published MTay 1954. x ? 122 pages, 4 collotype plates. Quarto. Cloth. $85.OO.

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