Robert Manuel Cook 1909–2000

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Boardman
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
Greek Archaeology ◽  
General Readership ◽  
Greek Art ◽  
Painted Pottery

Robert Cook was Laurence Reader then Professor in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University. His Greek Painted Pottery, first published in 1960, was a standard student text and his Greek Art (1972) was aimed at a general readership. Cook wrote widely on Ancient Greek archaeology and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1974. Obituary by John Boardman FBA.

Stage by Stage: The Birth of Theatre. By Philip Freund. London: Peter Owen, 2003; pp. 811. $79.95 cloth; Women and Humor in Classical Greece. By Laurie O'Higgins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. xviii + 262. $70 cloth.

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-324
Author(s):  
Mark Ringer
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Greek Drama ◽  
The Past ◽  
General Readership ◽  
Comprehensive Survey

Both Philip Freund's The Birth of Theatre and Laurie O'Higgins's Women and Humor in Classical Greece deal with Ancient Greek drama. Freund, a theatre historian, attempts a fairly comprehensive survey of both Greek and Roman drama as well as its influence on postclassical theatre, with particular emphasis on the past century. O'Higgins, a classicist, offers what at first glance appears a far narrower exploration that might only be of interest to other classicists. Of the two writers, it is O'Higgins who crafts a readable study that resonates well beyond its ostensibly narrow subject, whereas Freund's book, geared toward a more general readership, is hampered by serious problems of presentation and organization that compromise his more ambitious work's usefulness.

Archaeological textiles excavated in Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Stella Spantidaki ◽  
Christina Margariti
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Greek Archaeology ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Mediterranean Europe ◽  
The University

This paper offers an account of the archaeological textiles excavated in Greece, consideration of the challenges one has to deal with when studying such materials and a discussion of ways to overcome them. A complete list of archaeological textiles excavated in Greece is not within the scope of this paper, since such comprehensive studies have been published previously (Spantidaki and Moulhérat 2012; Moulhérat and Spantidaki 2016) and, of course, the corpus of such textiles is continuously expanding.The study of textiles is an emerging and fast-growing field of Greek archaeology (Gleba 2011). The number of archaeologists and conservators working with and studying archaeological textiles is steadily increasing, thus raising the general awareness of textiles and expanding the corpus of known ancient fabrics. In recent years, several research projects have investigated ancient Greek textiles, such as those conducted by the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen (for example Textile Economies in the Mediterranean Area), several funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie Action grants and some by European Research Council grants (for example Production and Consumption: Textile Economy and Urbanisation in Mediterranean Europe 1000–500 BCE hosted by Cambridge University).

Classical archaeology - Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann. Götter und Lararien aus Augusta Raurica: Herstellung, Fundzusammanehänge und sakrale Funktion figürlicher Bronzen in einer römischen Stadt (Forschungen in Augst 26). 350 pages, 282 figures, 2 tables. 1998. Augst: Augst Roman Museum; 3-7151-0026-5 hardback SF150. - A.T. Croom. Roman clothing and fashion. 160 pages, 77 figures, 25 colour plates. 2000. Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-7524-1469-0 hardback £18.99 & $29.99. - C.M. Gilliver. The Roman art of war. 192 pages, 57 figures. 1999. Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-7524-1438-0 hardback £18.99. - M. Feugère (ed.). L’équipement militaire et l’armement de la République (IVe–Ier s. avant J.-C.) (Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies 8). v+ 319 pages, figures, tables. 1999. Oxford: Oxbow; 1-84217-006-6 ISSN 0961-3684 paperback. - Ellen Swift. The end of the Western Roman Empire: an archaeological investigation. 158 pages, 71 b&w figures, 25 colour figures. 2000. Stroud & Charleston (SC): Tempus; 0-7524-1478-X paperback £14.99 & US$24.99. - Roald F. Docter & Eric M. Moormann (ed.). Classical archaeology towards the Third Millennium: reflections and perspectives; proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Amsterdam, July 12–17,1998 (2 vols). xvii+ 469 pages & xv pages + figures, plates. 1999. Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Museum; 90-71211-31-2 hardback. - J.S. Morrison, J.F. Coates & N.B. Rankov. The Athenian trireme: the history and reconstruction of an ancient Greek warship (2nd ed.). xxviii+ 319 pages, 95 figures, 15 maps. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-56419-0, 0-521-56456-5 hardback, paperback £40 & US$69.95, £14.95 & US$24.95.

Antiquity ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (285) ◽  
pp. 715-716
Author(s):  
N. James
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Art Of War ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
The Third

scholarly journals THE COMB FROM THE HAYMANOVA MOHYLA AND THE SCYTHIAN MYTH OF A HERO FIGHTING A DRAGON

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-492
Author(s):  
Yu. B. Polidovych
Keyword(s):  
General Context ◽  
Good Luck ◽  
Female Side ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Large Plate ◽  
Male Side ◽  
Greek Art ◽  
Battle Scene

The article is devoted to the analysis of images on the bone comb from the Haymanova Mohyla mound (IV century BC). The images on it quite fully represent the myth of a Hero fighting a dragon, which is not known from narrative sources. The first large plate (the «male» side of the comb) depicts a battle scene with a consistently developing plot: the defeat of one hero — the triumph of the dragon — revenge and the victory of the second hero. It can be assumed that the characters in this scene are Targitaos and Kolaxais, known from the story of Herodotus. These Scythian heroes relate to Iranian Yima (Jamshid) and Θraētaona (Fereydun). The goddess is reproduced on the second large plate (the «female» side of the comb). Her iconographic image was borrowed from the ancient Greek Art, but it was perceived by the Scythians, probably as the goddess Api (Άπί), equivalent to the Iranian goddess Aredvi Sura Anahita. The general context of the images suggests that the Scythians were familiar with the Iranian prayers to this goddess with a request to bestow good luck in the fight against hostile creatures. The comb was certainly an important ritual and status attribute.

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