TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frederiksen,Rune
TI  - Greek city walls of the Archaic period, 900-480 BC
T2  - Oxford monographs on classical archaeology
SN  - 9780199578122
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford: , New York
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - City walls
KW  - History
KW  - Greece
KW  - Classical Greek & Roman archaeology ; World history: BCE to c 500 CE ; Architecture
KW  - History of art / art & design styles
KW  - Ancient Greece
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - General
KW  - To 146 B.C
N1  - Dr. Rune Frederiksen is Senior Research Fellow at Danish Institute at Athens; Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis (Univ. of Copenhagen, 2004); Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 1. Introduction ; 2. Types of fortification ; 3. City walls in the written record and the visual arts ; 4. Preservation of city walls ; 5. The archaeology of city walls ; 6. Dating city walls ; 7. Architectural and topographical analysis ; 8. The prevalence of city walls in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece ; Catalogue of city walls
N2  - In this fully illustrated study, Rune Frederiksen assembles all archaeological and written sources for city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier. Frederiksen discusses the types of fortified settlement and the topography of urban fortification, and also the preservation of structures from early settlements. He also presents an architectural history of Greek fortification walls before the Classical period, and makes the intriguing observation that early monumental architecture developed just as much in fortifications as it did in early temples. This underlines the importance of the secular sphere for the development of early communities across the Greek world. In this fully illustrated study, Rune Frederiksen assembles all sources for Archaic city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier. Frederiksen discusses the types of fortified settlement and the topography of urban fortification, and also the preservation of structures from early settlements. He also presents an architectural history of Greek fortification walls before the Classical period, and makes the intriguing observation that early monumental architecture developed just as much in fortifications as it did in early temples. This underlines the importance of the secular sphere for the development of early communities across the Greek world. Review: this well-written book ... is a worthy read for any student of fortification studies and the origins of Greek urbanism. Claire Balandier, American Journal of Archaeology
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