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GREECE OLD AND NEW A Iso by Tom Winnifrith THEBRONTES THE BRONTES AND THEIR BACKGROUND: Romance and Reality ASPECTS OF THE EPIC (edt/or wtOth Penelope Murray and Ko Wo Gransden) Greece Old and New Edited by Tom Winnifrith and Penelope Murray For Naomz' and A lexander © Tom Winnifrith and Penelope Murray 1983 Softcover reprint ofthe hardcover 1st edition 1983978-0-333-27836-9 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First published 1983 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS L TD London and Basingstoke Companies and representatz'ves throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-05125-0 ISBN 978-1-349-05123-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-05123-6 Typeset in Great Brz'tain by Scarborough Typesetting Services Contents ~~~u ~ List of Maps and Figures Vlll Acknowledgements IX Notes on the Contributors Xl 1 Invocation to the Muses Penelope Murray 1 2 Two Archaic Ages of Greece George Forrest 13 3 Homer Today Malcolm Willcock 25 4 Migration and Assimilation in Greece Nicholas Hammond 39 5 Greeks and Romans Tom Winnijrith 65 6 Greeks and Turks Anthony Bryer 95 7 The Continuity of Hellenism in the Byzantine World: Appearance or Reality? Robert Browning III 8 Archaeology in Greece Paul Cartledge 129 9 Byron and Greece WilHam St Claz'r 153 10 Greece Old and New Tom Winnijrz'th 169 11 Septeria and Daphnephoria Nikos Stangos (trans, from 'Repetz'tions' by Yannis Ritsos) 175 Index 177 v List of Plates la View of the Zygos or Katara pass from Metsovo: Vlach women in foreground b View of Malovi~te, Vlach village in Yugoslavia 2a Gold solidus of Heraclius (610-41) and Heraclius Constantine b Bronze coin of Kiitbiiddin Ilghazi of Mardin (1176-84) c Gold hyperper of John II Komnenos (1118-43) d Bronze coin of Nedjmuddin Alpi of Mardin (1152-76) e Bronze coin of Husamuddin 'Y oluk Arslan' of Mardin (1184-1200) f Bronze coin of Nasiruddin Mahmud of Kefya (1200-22) g Reverse and observe of 'The Great Ruler of All Romania (right) and the East, Mehmed (left), the Meltk Danishmend (1084-134) 3a Byzantine and Seljuk capitals assembled in the north porch of the church of the Hagia Sophia, Trebizond, in the 1260s b W front of Parthenon by Cyriac of Ancona 4a Drawing by Stuart of monument of Lysikrates incorporated in Capuchin monastery, Athens b Etching by Piranesi of Temple of Hera at Paestum 5a Aerial view of Delphi b Treasury of the Athenians, Delphi 6a Gold death-mask of 'Agamemnon' from Mycenae b Attic red-figure bell-krater from wreck of H.M.S. Colossus c Oriental bronze helmet d Frieze of the Parthenon 7a Drawing by Jacques Carrey of W front of Parthenon vi List of Plates vii b 1707 engraving of destruction of Parthenon 8a The Athenian Akropolis b Frieze of the Parthenon Plate 4b is by courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum; plates 3b, 4a and 7b are by courtesy of the Gennadius Library; plate 6c is by courtesy of the German Archaeological Institute, Athens; plate 6b is by courtesy of the Illustrated London News; plates 5a, 5b, 6a, 7a, 8a and 8b are by courtesy of the Mansell Collection and plate 6d is by courtesy of Ronald Sheridan. List of Maps and Figures Map 1 Pee to Elbasan 54 Map 2 Kacanik to Verna 55 Map 3 Radomir to Serres 56 Map 4 Pogradec to Margariti 57 Map 5 Verria to Viniani 58 Map 6 Larissa to Corinth 59 Map 7 Palaeolithic settlements in the southwest Balkans 60 Map 8 Cultures of the Middle Neolithic period 61 Map 9 Distribution of tumuli of Early Helladic and Middle Helladic date 62 Map 10 Vlach villages today 63 Map 11 The Romans in the Balkans 64 Fig. 1 Plan of Delphi 137 Fig.2 Plan of Olympia 140 Fig. 3 Plan of Athenian Akropolis 146 viii Acknowledgements In 1978 and 1979 the Greek Embassy sponsored a series oflectures at the University of Warwick designed to show the similarities and differences between the history and literature of Ancient and Modem Greece. In publishing these lectures the editors and the University of Warwick would like to thank the Greek Embassy for their generous help, and they would also like to thank their audience for their support through fog, frost and snow, rail strikes, petrol shortages and the railway line buckled in the heat of May which nearly postponed Mr St Clair's lecture for a second time. In putting on the lectures the Joint School of Classical Civilisa- tion received timely help from Mr J. B. Butterworth, Vice- Chancellor of the University of Warwick, Mrs Eleni Cubitt of the Greek Embassy, the Secretary of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, the Headmistress of Ursuline Con- vent High School, Brentwood, Mrs Sylvia Seeley, MissJanet Floyd, Miss Joan Miles, Mr Samuel Lieu, Mrs Penny Jefferson, Miss Karen Lawrence, Miss Jessica Wall, Miss Lynne Richards, Miss Eleanor Gurr, Miss Tina Moran, Miss Nicolette Gamer and Miss Alison Keane. In publishing the lectures the editors would like to thank Mrs Janet Bailey and Mrs Christine Wyman for their admirable typing, Miss Susan Caruth of Macmillan for her sympathetic help, and all contributors for their punctual submission of the printed version of their oral contributions. It does not require a Milman Parry to detect differences between the various contributors when it comes to providing a written version of their lectures. The editors have felt it right to ix
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