Roads and Forts in Northwestern Attica

Vanderpool, Eugene

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“…Accessibility of the countryside, enabled by well-built roads, could play an important part in facilitating movement over a large and disparate territory. For instance, the route from Athens to Boeotia via Eleusis typifies the connectivity and diversity of traveller types on routes in Attica (Vanderpool 1978; Ober 1985, 186; Munn 2010; Fachard and Pirisino 2015, 140–4). As illustrated in Figure 5, the route runs north-west from Athens, before turning north at Eleusis; it passes the deme of Azenia where an engineered path continues towards the Skourta plain before entering Boeotia (Vanderpool 1978, 238–9).…”

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“…For instance, the route from Athens to Boeotia via Eleusis typifies the connectivity and diversity of traveller types on routes in Attica (Vanderpool 1978; Ober 1985, 186; Munn 2010; Fachard and Pirisino 2015, 140–4). As illustrated in Figure 5, the route runs north-west from Athens, before turning north at Eleusis; it passes the deme of Azenia where an engineered path continues towards the Skourta plain before entering Boeotia (Vanderpool 1978, 238–9). After Azenia, a subsidiary path connects the Panakton fort to the main route (Fachard and Pirisino 2015, 139–40).…”

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Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

McHugh

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The aim of this paper is to explore the physical connectivity of Attica by examining the realities of travel for Athenians wishing to engage with wider civic, social, economic and cultic institutions. This will be achieved by focussing upon the practicalities of short-, medium- and long-distance travel with the aim of differentiating aspects, modes and reasons for travel. This investigation will be realised through a series of computational scenarios created on the basis of a combination of ancient and nineteenth-century accounts of journeys through Attica along with the archaeological evidence of the Athenian road system. The results of this study shed light upon the constraints on, and opportunities for, participation in wider practices and the experience of travel for the individual traveller. Recent studies have shown there were many spaces in Attica that provided opportunities for Athenians to come together, to interact with each other and participate in civic, ritual and social institutions. The ultimate conclusions of this study will help to illustrate the fundamental connectivity and active engagement of the traveller with the Athenian landscape.

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Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

McHugh

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…The presence of extra-urban fortifications in the territories of Greek poleis has been a well-recognized phenomenon since the 19 th century. Their studywas the high point of fortification research in Greece in the 1980s and 1990s, boosted by the work of Josiah Ober in Attica (Ober 1985) and other topographers of the ASCSA (Vanderpool 1978;Camp 1991;Munn 1993). It has been a current trend to associate rural fortifications with 'defensive networks' operating at the level of an entire chora, designed to block enemy incursions and to provide a system of visual surveillance.…”

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A decade of research on Greek fortifications

Fachard¹

2016

Arch. Rep.

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The Chronique des fouilles en ligne – Archaeology in Greece Online has recorded close to 300 field operations dealing with fortifications in the last decade. It is impossible to account for each of them in this brief survey, but the reader can effortlessly find them in the database (http://chronique.efa.gr/). Here, instead, I wish to focus on the main achievements of the last decade (2006–2016) by reviewing the major publications, recording current trends and research objectives, and suggesting future directions for the field of fortification studies.

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“…SincePolignac (1984), many studies have been carried out, such as the Copenhagen Polis Center, but it is also worth remembering the contributions ofSNODGRASS, 1993, MORGAN, 2003and CALIÒ, 2011 The city of Troy is famous for having a powerful wall that deserves in the Iliad the epithet of euteichos: "with the beautiful wall" or "with the well-built wall".7 On the defenses of Attica, see:MC CREDIE, 1966 andOBER, 1985;1989. On the road network and the forts in Attica, seeVANDERPOOL, 1979. For an overview of modern and contemporary studies on Greek fortresses, see LO MONACO, 2019.8 Dans le monde colonial d'Occident, le territoire de la cité jouxte de petits établissements indigènes, souvent fortifiés, dont on peine à dire s'ils étaient occupés par des Grecs ou par des indigènes et, dans ce dernier cas, s'ils avaient pour fonction de défendre le territoire indigène contre la cité grecque, ou au contraire celui de la ville grecque contre une agression extérieur.…”

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Phrourion: History and Archaeology of a Word

Monaco

2020

História

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Historical and archaeological literature in many cases have named phrouria the ancient Sikel and Sikan towns, which were in contact with the apoikoi from the end of the 8th century B.C. But what is the meaning that the researchers attribute to this word? Is it possible that, in choosing this definition, the interpretations of the dynamics of contact were inevitably filtered through a Hellenocentric view? The purpose of this paper is to analyze different forms in which the noun “phrourion” has been and is still used in scientific production, from ancient textual sources to archaeological literature. It is an invitation to reflect on the agency of words in scientific discourse and to what extent we, scholars of Antiquity, are influenced by the vocabulary of Greek “colonialism” when interpreting material culture and societies from the past.

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Roads and Forts in Northwestern Attica

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Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

Going the Extra Mile: Travel, Time and Distance in Classical Attica

A decade of research on Greek fortifications

Phrourion: History and Archaeology of a Word

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