Edited by Lisa Nevett and James Whitley

What is Classical archaeology’s place within the overall study of antiquity and the history of humanity? And what is its relationship to its kindred disciplines of ancient history, art history and Mediterranean prehistory? Forty or so years ago Classical archaeology appeared to be a very conservative and rather niche area of scholarly endeavour. Then both prehistorians and ancient historians might have answered that Classical archaeology had little to offer their respective fields of study. Since the late 1970s, however, the subject has been transformed, a transformation in which the example of Anthony Snodgrass has played a significant role. This volume brings together the work of Snodgrass’s former students; scholars who, while they could be variously classified as prehistorians, ancient historians, Classical archaeologists, Classical art historians, Classicists and modern historians, are internationally recognized scholars in their respective fields. Each contribution brings a unique perspective to bear on the current state of Classical archaeology and its place in not only Mediterranean but also global history, art history and archaeology.

• Complete volume - An Age of Experiment: Classical Archaeology Transformed (1976–2014)
• Chapter 1 - Introduction: Anthony Snodgrass and the Transformation of Classical Archaeology
• Chapter 2 - An Explosion, Not Revolution: Recasting Issues in the Greek Iron Age
• Chapter 3 - Gifts for Gods in an Early Polis, Zagora on Andros
• Chapter 4 - The Krater and the Pithos: Two Kinds of Agency
• Chapter 5 - Homeric Imagery
• Chapter 6 - Parian Memory and the Greek ‘Colonization’ of Thasos
• Chapter 7 - Location, Location, Location: Site and Status in Sicilian Cemeteries
• Chapter 8 - Structural Revolution: Archaeology, the Rise of the Greek State, and the Shape of the Ancient World
• Chapter 9 - Events, Episodes and History: Chronology and the Resolution of Historical Processes
• Chapter 10 - Structural History and Classical Archaeology: 25 Years On
• Chapter 11 - The Sh** That You Find on the Surface: Manuring and Field Survey in the Mediterranean Countryside
• Chapter 12 - The Materiality, Monumentality and Biography of Copper Slag on Cyprus
• Chapter 13 - Social History and Historical Archaeology in Greece. The Kefalonia and Andros Project, 2010–2014
• Chapter 14 - Revixit Ars: Artistic ‘Rebirth’ in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Early Modern China and Europe
• Chapter 15 - Ancient Greek Women in Eighteenth-century Europe: A Preliminary Survey
• Chapter 16 - Hellenic Homelands: The Greek Diaspora, Ancient and Modern
• Chapter 17 - Convergers, Divergers and the Changing Contrarieties of Classical Archaeology