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16 - Piraeus: Harbors, Navy, and Shipping

from Part III - Business/Commerce

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
George Steinhauer
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

This chapter is about the history, the monuments and the people of Piraeus, the arsenal, and the commercial center of the Athenian empire. The proposed reconstruction of the residential quarters and the harbor installations of this model city designed by Hippodamos, the father of city-planning, is based on recent archaeological research.

Keywords

EmporionshipshedsHippodamian town-planningdomestic spaceharbors
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 231 - 243
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

The classic reference (with the older bibliography and a good plan of Piraeus) is still the Piraeus section of Judeich’s 1931 Topographie von Athen. Garland 1987 offers a useful study of the history and different aspects of the city. Von Eickstedt 1991 gives an exhaustive list of all Piraeus excavations up to 1988. For the Hippodamian planning, see Hoepfner and Schwandner 1994, with a map of the suggested Hippodamian plan and an appendix on the Skeuotheke by Steinhauer. For supplementary remarks on the town plan of Hippodamos, see Gill 2006, Steinhauer 2007, and Longo 2008. The Zea Shipsheds have now been exhaustively published by Lovén 2011 and Lovén and Sapountzis 2019; that can be paired with Pakkanen 2013 and Rankov 2013. The Long Walls are published by Conwell 2008. For the new excavations in the Emporion, see Steinhauer 2012. For the Eetioneia, see Steinhauer 2003. For the important Piraeus stone quarries, see Langdon 2000. On ancient ships and seamanship, the old book of Casson 1971 is still very helpful. On the organization of the Emporion, see Stanley 1976, and for the navy Jordan 1975, Gabrielsen 1994, and Hale 2009, along with Pritchard, Chapter 22 in this volume.

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