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 Greek Classical Archaeology
Required Textbooks [all available at the Dartmouth Bookstore and at Wheelock Books]
  1. J. Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period: A Handbook (London 1985)
  2. J. Boardman, Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Period: A Handbook (London 1995)
  3. J. M. Camp, The Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens (New York 1986, 1992)
  4. J. M. Hurwit, The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present (Cambridge 1999)
  5. J. J. Pollitt, Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Cambridge 1972)
Highly Recommended Texts [check the bookstores for the availability of some used copies]
  1. R. Osborne, Classical Landscape with Figures: the Ancient Greek City and its Countryside (London 1987)
Books on Reserve in Baker Library
  1. B. Ashmole, Architect and Sculptor in Classical Greece (London 1972). [ART NB/94/.A83]
  2. J. Boardman, Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period (London 1989). [ART NK/4649/.B624/1989]
  3. A. L. Boegehold, The Athenian Agora XXVIII: The Lawcourts at Athens: Sites, Buildings, Equipment, Procedure, and Testimonia (Princeton 1995). [DF/287/.A23/A5/v.28]
  4. J. S. Boersma, Athenian Building Policy from 561/0 to 405/4 B.C. (Groningen 1970). [BUS-ENGR TH/16/.B6]
  5. J. M. Camp and W. B. Dinsmoor, Jr., Ancient Athenian Building Methods (Princeton 1984). [DF/287/.A23/A6/no.21/1984]
  6. T. H. Carpenter, Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London 1991). [ART/N/5633/.C37/1991; ART Reserve Unclassed]
  7. P. Connolly and H. Dodge, The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome (Oxford 1998). [DE/59/.C59/1998]
  8. B. F. Cook, Greek Inscriptions (London 1987). [CN/350/.C77/1987]
  9. W. D. E. Coulson et al. (eds.), The Archaeology of Athens under the Democracy (Oxford 1994). [DF/227/.A723/1994]
  10. J. J. Coulton, Ancient Greek Architects at Work (Ithaca 1977). [ART NA/270/.C65/1977]
  11. J. J. Coulton, The Architectural Development of the Greek Stoa (Oxford 1976). [ART NA/270/.C63]
  12. R. Garland, The Greek Way of Death (Ithaca 1985). [BL/795/.D4/G37/1985]
  13. V. R. Grace, Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade (Princeton 1961). [DF/287/.A23/A6/no.6/1961]
  14. M. H. Hansen and K. Raaflaub (eds.), Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis [Historia Einzelschriften 95] (Stuttgart 1995). [JC/352/.S78/1995]
  15. V. D. Hanson, The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece (New York 1989). [U/33/.H36/1989]
  16. G. K. Jenkins, Ancient Greek Coins (London 1972). [CJ/335/.J45/1972]
  17. A. Koloski-Ostrow and C. Lyons (eds.), Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology (London/New York 1997). [N/7630/.N36/1997]
  18. C. M. Kraay, Greek Coins (London 1966). [CJ/335/.K7]
  19. D. Kurtz and J. Boardman, Greek Burial Customs (Ithaca 1971). [DF/101/.K87/1971]
  20. M. Lang, The Athenian Citizen (Princeton 1960). [DF/287/.A23/A6/no.4/1960]
  21. A. W. Lawrence, Greek Architecture [4th edition] (Harmondsworth 1983). [ART NA/270/.L36/1983]
  22. P. Levi (trans.), Pausanias. Guide to Greece I-II (Harmondsworth 1971). [DF/27/.P4/1971/v.1-2]
  23. W. A. McDonald, The Political Meeting Places of the Greeks (Baltimore 1943). [883.12/M145p]
  24. C. C. Mattusch, Bronzeworkers in the Athenian Agora (Princeton 1982). [DF/287/.A23/A6/no.20/1982]
  25. S. Miller, The Prytaneion: its Function and Architectural Form (Berkeley 1978). [ART NA/270/.M54]
  26. I. Morris (ed.), Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies (Cambridge 1994). [DF/77/.C63/1944]
  27. J. S. Morrison and J. F. Coates, The Athenian Trireme: The History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship (Cambridge 1986). [VM/16/.M66/1986]
  28. J. Neils (ed.), Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Hanover 1992). [ART N/5635/.H35/N45/1992]
  29. R. Osborne, Classical Landscape with Figures: the Ancient Greek City and its Countryside (London 1987). [DF/78/.O82/1987]
  30. W. J. Raschke (ed.), The Archaeology of the Olympics (Madison 1988). [DF/78/.A65/1988]
  31. G. M. A. Richter, The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks [4th edition] (New Haven 1970). [ART NB/90/.R54/1970]
  32. M. Robertson, A History of Greek Art (Cambridge 1975). [ART N/5630/q.R634/v.1-2]
  33. M. Robertson, The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens (Cambridge 1992). [ART NK/4645/.R7/1992]
  34. H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology (New York 1959). [883.17/R72r]
  35. M. Simpson (trans.), Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus (Amherst 1976). [PA/3870/.A55/A28]
  36. A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (New Haven 1990). [ART/NB/90/.S74/1990]
  37. A. Stewart, Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece (Cambridge 1997). [N/5633/.S74/1997]
  38. H. A. Thompson and R. E. Wycherley, The Athenian Agora XIV: The Agora of Athens: The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center (Princeton 1972). [DF/287/.A23/A5/v.14]
  39. R. Tölle-Kastenbein, Das archaische Wasserleitungnetz für Athen und seine späteren Bauphasen (Mainz 1994). [ART/NA/280/.T65/1994]
  40. R. F. Townsend, The Athenian Agora XXVII: The East Side of the Agora: The Remains beneath the Stoa of Attalos (Princeton 1995). [DF/287/.A23/A5/v.27]
  41. J. N. Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens (New York 1971). [ART NA/280/.T68]
  42. J. Warry, Warfare in the Classical World (New York 1980). [U/33/q.W37]
  43. N. A. Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: From the Prehistoric through to the Archaic Period (Oxford 1993). [ART/NA/3551/.A1/W55/1993]
  44. N. A. Winter, Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Architectural Terracottas of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods [Hesperia Supplement 27] (Princeton 1991). [ART/NA/3551/.A1/I58/1991]
  45. R. E. Wycherley, The Athenian Agora III: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia (Princeton 1957). [DF/287/.A23/A5/v.3]
  46. R. E. Wycherley, The Stones of Athens (Princeton 1978). [DF/275/.W92]
Periodical Articles On Reserve In Baker Library
  1. C. M. Antonaccio, "Architecture and Behavior: Building Gender into Greek Houses," Classical World 93:5(2000) 517-533.
  2. B. A. Ault, Living in the Classical Polis: The Greek House as Microcosm," Classical World 93:5(2000) 483-496.
  3. N. Cahill, "Olynthus and Town Planning," Classical World 93:5(2000) 497-515.
  4. J. E. Jones, "Another Country House in Attica," Archaeology 28(1975) 6-15.
  5. J. E. Jones, "Laurion: Agrileza, 1977-83: Excavations at a Silver-Mine Site," Journal of Hellenic Studies: Archaeological Reports 31(1984-85) 106-123.
Miscellaneous Additional Useful Resources
The following titles are useful as introductions to the impact of gender bias on pictorial art (no.1), as general encyclopedias of Classical antiquity and of myth in Greek pictorial art (nos.2-4), as an introduction to the historical use of coinage (no. 5), and as a basic gazetteer of Classical sites in the Greek world (no. 6):
  1. J. Berger et al., Ways of Seeing (London 1972). [ART N/7430.5/.W39; ART Reserve Unclassed]
  2. J. Boardman et al., Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zurich 1981 - ). [ART/Special/NX/650/.M9/L48/v.1-5]
  3. M. Grant, Greek and Latin Authors, 800 B.C.-A.D.1000 (New York 1980) [REF PA/31/.G7].
  4. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary [3rd edition] (Oxford 1996) [REF DE/5/.O9/1996].
  5. C. Howgego, Ancient History from Coins (London/New York 1995). [CJ/335/.H7/1995]
  6. R. Stillwell (ed.), Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton 1976). [DE/59/.P7; additional reference copy available in Sherman Art Library].

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