Search for dissertations about: "Classical Greece"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Classical Greece.

2. 1. Polygonal columns in Greek architecture

   Author : Therese Emanuelsson-Paulson; Arja Karivieri; Lena Sjögren; Henrik Gerding; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Column; Shaft; Capital; Base; Doric; Polygonal; Facet; Octagonal; Flute; Greek architecture; Classical archeology; Classical architecture; Geometric; Archaic; Classical; Hellenistic; Greece; Albania; Turkey; Cyprus; arkeologi med inriktning mot antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Archaeology and Classical Studies;

   Abstract : This thesis studies the use of polygonal columns in Greek architecture from the Geometric to the Hellenistic period. The main purpose of the research is to study the development, distribution, design, function and use of polygonal columns in order to create a new understanding on how they fit in the development of Greek architecture. READ MORE

4. 2. Greek Cisterns : Water and risk in ancient Greece, 600–50 BC

   Author : Patrik Klingborg; Gunnel Ekroth; Henrik Gerding; Michaeol Lindblom; Jutta Stroszeck; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cisterns; Greece; Water; Risk; Materiality; Water supply; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : This study explores cisterns in the Greek world 600–50 BC based on a representative body of archaeological material of 410 cisterns from 49 sites presented in a catalogue, and the literary and epigraphic evidence. The aim is to investigate when and how cisterns were constructed, how they were used and functioned in ancient Greek society and why they were used only at certain times. READ MORE

5. 3. Heterological Ethnicity : Conceptualizing Identities in Ancient Greece

   Author : Johannes Siapkas; Pontus Hellström; Gullög Nordquist; Björnar Olsen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; theory; ethnicity; classical archaeology; ancient history; primordialism; instrumentalism; Messenia; helots; heterology; de Certeau; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : In accordance with the heterological tradition, this study emphasises the determining effect of theoretical assumptions on our conceptualizations of the past. This study scrutinises how classical archaeologists and ancient historians have conceptualized ethnic groups, in particular the Messenians. READ MORE

6. 4. Berbati between Argos and Corinth : the excavations at Pyrgouthi in 1995 and 1997 : from the early Iron Age to the early Roman period

   Author : Arto Penttinen; Pontus Hellström; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : Landscape archaeology; border zone; boundary; Corinthia; Argolid; Early Iron Age Greece; Classical Greece; Hellenistic Greece; Early Roman Greece; pastoralism; transhumance; animal husbandry; ancient agriculture; potters kiln; tower; fortification; antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History;

   Abstract : This dissertation is based on the finds from the archaeological excavations at Pyrgouthi, Berbati, in the Argolid, Greece, in 1995 and 1997. The excavations focused on a rectangular tower built of heavy polygonal blocks, which was identified as belonging to a farmstead site during an earlier surface survey in the area. READ MORE

7. 5. Kalaureia 1894 : A Cultural History of the First Swedish Excavation in Greece

   Author : Ingrid Berg; Anders Andrén; Arto Penttinen; Margarita Díaz-Andreu; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; classical archaeology; Kalaureia; Poros; Greece; Sanctuary of Poseidon; nineteenth century; history of archaeology; cultural history; microhistory; politics of belonging; colonialism; topography; fieldwork; excavation; representation; historiography; masculinity; identity; heritage; arkeologi; Archaeology;

   Abstract : The excavation of the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Kalaureia in 1894 marks the beginning of Swedish archaeological fieldwork in Greece. During a couple of hot summer months, two philologists from Uppsala University, Sam Wide (1861-1918) and Lennart Kjellberg (1857-1936), worked in the sanctuary together with the architect Sven Kristenson (1858-1937), the Greek foreman Pankalos and around twenty local workmen. READ MORE