TY  - BOOK
AU  - Treister,Michail Yu
TI  - The role of metals in ancient Greek history
T2  - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum,
SN  - 9789004329829
AV  - TS225.2.G8 T74 1996
U1  - 671/.0938 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Leiden, New York
PB  - E.J. Brill
KW  - Metal-work
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Metallurgy
KW  - Civilization, Greco-Roman
KW  - Classical antiquities
KW  - fast
KW  - Metals
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - To 146 B.C
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-454) and index; Preliminary Material; Michail Yu. Treister --; Historiography and Models of Study; Michail Yu. Treister --; The Role of Metals in the Period of Greek Colonization; Michail Yu. Treister --; The Role of Metals in the Classical Era; Michail Yu. Treister --; The Role of Metals in the Hellenistic Era; Michail Yu. Treister --; Conclusion; Michail Yu. Treister --; Bibliography; Michail Yu. Treister --; List of Abbreviations; Michail Yu. Treister --; List of Illustrations; Michail Yu. Treister --; Index; Michail Yu. Treister --; Illustrations; Michail Yu. Treister; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The first in-depth study of the field in more than 20 years analyzes the role of various metals in the context of Greek economic life, politics, culture and art, traces the movement of metal from ore to finished objects, including works of art, and shows the relations between the regions where metals were extracted and the centres of metalworking, the structure of the workshops and the connections between them and the role of the workshops in economic life at different stages in Greek history. In doing so it adopts a multidisciplinary approach, defining the role of metals in the history of Greek society using the widest possible variety of sources: the excavated remains of workshops and hoards, archaeometallurgical finds; the results of studies of ancient mines and analyses of ancient metal objects; bronze plastics and jewelry, coins et cetera The chronological span of the study is the 8th-1st centuries B.C., id est from the beginning of the main period of Greek colonization till the end of the Hellenistic era. The geographical scope of the work is the Greek oikumene. New to most scholars will be Treister's knowledge of objects and technologies in the eastern Greek and Roman world of the Northern Black Sea and Colchis. While this book does not pretend to be a definitive survey of the history of mining and metallurgy in the Greek world, it is a particularly useful interim report
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004329829
ER  -