Clues to the Location of Minoan Bull-Jumping from the Palace at Knossos
The opponents of the central court theory believed that it was not realistic to direct a bull through the interior of a palace without causing damage en route to the central court.
Painting the wine-dark sea: traveling Aegean fresco artists in the Middle and late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
By examining the fresco fragments themselves I establish that the motifs represented and the style of manufacture are in fact Aegean. Textual evidence from the Near East and Egyptian tomb paintings suggest that the Aegean was well-known for its artistic accomplishments and that Aegean goods and the artisans that produced them were treated as elite commodities.
Weapons and Warfare in Early Iron Age Thessaly
The aim of this paper is to examine all the archaeological evidence regarding weapons in Early Iron Age Thessaly.
Contacts and trade at Late Bronze Age Hazor: aspects of intercultural relationships and identity in the Eastern Mediterranean
The city of Hazor appears to have been one of the largest in Canaan in the Late Bronze Age, yet no real attempt to trace the source of its affluence has been made. No city can prosper in isolation; hence intercultural relationships are of greatest importance for a city’s development.
The divergent evolution of coinage in eastern and western Eurasia
This paper offers a concise comparative assessment of some key features of the ‘Aegean’ and ‘Chinese’ models of coinage.
Troy and Homer
Troy and Homer Ian Morris Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: November (2005) Abstract This is a review of Joachim Latacz’s book Troy and…
The eighth-century revolution
The eighth-century revolution Ian Morris (Stanford University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract Through most of the 20th century classicists saw…