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Art and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2021

Michael Squire
Michael Squire*
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I am no doubt showing my prejudice, but I didn't expect a book on Greek acroteria to make for such exciting lockdown reading. Because of their position high up on temple buildings, extant sculpted materials tend to be fragmentary – and hence pushed to the literal and metaphorical corners of modern-day museums. Look to scholarly publications, moreover, and there is a tendency towards classificatory catalogues, markedly less in the way of theoretical discussion (whether about architectural and cultic framing, for example, historical aesthetics, or the intersection between ‘ornamental’ and ‘figurative’ representational modes).

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Greece & Rome , Volume 68 , Special Issue 1: The Emotions of Medea , April 2021 , pp. 148 - 158
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2 Akroter und Architektur. Figürliche Skulptur auf Dächern griechischer Bauten vom 6. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. By Corinna Reinhardt. Image and Context 18. Berlin, de Gruyter, 2018. Pp. x + 598. 249 b/w illustrations. Hardback £118, ISBN: 978-3-11-053880-9.

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8 Compare Versluys’ stimulating chapter on ‘Egypt and/in/as Rome’ in Spier, Potts, and Cole (n. 5), 230–6. See also e.g. M. J. Versluys, Aegyptiaca Romana. Nilotic Scenes and the Roman Views of Egypt (Leiden, 2002); M. J. Versluys, ‘Haunting Traditions: The (Material) Presence of Egypt in the Roman World’, in D. Boschung, A. Busch, and M.-J. Versluys (eds.), Reinventing the ‘Invention of Tradition’? Indigeneous Pasts and the Roman Present (Paderborn, 2015), 127–58; M. J. Versluys and C. van Eck (eds.), Beyond Egyptomania. Objects, Styles, and Agency (Leiden, 2018). Compare also E. M. Mol, ‘Object Ontology and Cultural Taxonomies: Examining the Agency of Style, Material and Objects in Classification through Egyptian Material Culture in Pompeii and Rome’, in A. van Oyen and M. Pitts (eds.), Materialising Roman Histories. Beyond Instrumentalism and Representation (Oxford, 2017), 169–90; S. K. Pearson, Egyptian Airs. The Life of Luxury in Roman Wall Painting (Berlin, forthcoming).

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12 Among other important contributions, see especially D. Howes, Sensual Relations. Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory (Ann Arbor, MI, 2003); J. Day, Making Sense of the Past. Towards a Sensory Archaeology (University Park, IL, 2013); Y. Hamilakis, Archaeology and the Senses. Human Experience, Memory and Affect (Cambridge, 2013).

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17 The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany. Edited by Simon James and Stefan Krmnicek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxvi + 223. B/w illustrations. Hardback £110, ISBN: 978-0-19-966573-0.

18 Assembling Archaeology. Teaching, Practice, and Research. By Hannah Cobb and Karina Croucher. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 214. B/w illustrations. Hardback £55, ISBN: 978-0-19-878425-8.

19 The Power of Urban Water. Edited by Nicola Chiarenza, Annette Haug, and Ulrich Müller. Berlin, de Gruyter, 2020. Pp. viii + 272. 100 b/w illustrations. Hardback £109, ISBN: 978-3-11-067664-8.

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21 Roman Seas. A Maritime Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Economies. By Justin Leidwanger. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 323. B/w illustrations. Hardback £55, ISBN: 978-9-19-008365-6.

22 Leidwanger draws heavily on archaeological ‘network analysis’ here (98–109), particularly the pioneering work of Carl Knappett and others: see T. Brughmans, ‘Connecting the Dots: Towards Archaeological Network Analysis’, OJA 29.3 (2010): 277–303; C. Knappett, An Archaeology of Interaction. Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (Oxford, 2011); C. Knappett (ed.), Network Analysis in Archaeology. New Approaches to Regional Interaction (Oxford, 2016); T. Brughmans, A. Collar, and F. Coward (eds.), The Connected Past. Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History (Oxford, 2016); J. Leidwanger and C. Knappett (eds.), Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Cambridge, 2018).

23 A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases. By John H. Oakley. Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Pp. xxi + 248. B/w illustrations, 33 colour plates. Hardback £99.50, ISBN: 978-0-299-32720-0.

24 Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens. The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004)Google Scholar.

25 Living on the Edge of Empire. The Objects and People of Hadrian's Wall. By Rob Collins, with Barbara Birley, Alexandra Croom, Jane Laskey, Frances McIntosh, Tim Padley, Andrew Parkin, and Elsa Price. Barnsley, Pen & Sword Archaeology, 2020. Pp. 168. Colour illustrations. Hardback £25, ISBN: 978-1-78346-327-5.