Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens

Volume 15.1: Architecture and Topography Volume 15.2: Finds, Area 1 Shipshed Roof Reconstructions and Feature Catalogue Athens in the Classical period was preeminent because of her naval power. The architectural glories of the Acropolis stood in second place to …

This book is about the relationship between the people and the sea in the prehistoric Aegean. It explores how people understood the sea as an integral part of their way of life and examines the role the sea played in …

The year 2008 was the centenary for Danish architects working for the French School at Athens. The event was celebrated with a big exhibition shown both in Athens and in Copenhagen, and at both places accompanied by an international seminar. …

In 1996-7 Greek archaeologists found and excavated an archive with Cretan hieroglyphs at the site of Petras in eastern Crete. This discovery was rather unique since it was only the third archive in Greece with prehistoric writings that have been …

The volcanic eruption of Santorini was the greatest in historical times. Assigned to the Late Minoan IA period, archaeological correlations implied a date late in the 16th century BC. Yet indirect natural science evidence suggested a date in the 17th …

The last five years have seen a series of much called for publications on rural Cyprus, but most of the projects address the late Roman period. The excavations at Panayia Ematousa offer the first insight into a rural site of …

"The prehistoric periods" is the first volume in a series of publications where the results of the Danish/Greek excavations 1995 to 2001 in Ancient Chalkis in Aetolia are published. For the first time ever, stratigraphically excavated deposits from the Final …

As Peacock and Williams have noted, amphorae provide us "not with an index of the transportation of goods, but with direct witness of the movement of certain foodstuffs which were of considerable economic importance ... It is hard to conceive of …

The first millennium BC saw two great powers embracing the East-West divide: the Achaemenid and Hellenistic empires. The papers in this volume examine how their powerful new kings created palatial institutions suitable to reign subjugated lands with old monarchic traditions. …

The Greek city of Nikopolis was founded by Octavian (later known as the Emperor Augustus) after his victory in the naval battle of nearby Actium in 31 BC. The city was a result of a so-called synoecism, i.e., the …

The contributors to this volume about Byzantine chant use different approaches to uncover the early development and transmission of the tradition, its constancy and permutations. Considerations include a recent attempt to establish a new date for the "Round notation", one …

Late Minoan III Pottery presents a full discussion of the current research in Late Bronze Age III pottery in Crete. The contributors to this volume of twelve essays are archaeologists presently studying LM III pottery, preferably from stratified excavations in …