By John Bintliff, Emeri Farinetti, Bozidar Slapsak and Anthony Snodgrass

Few major Classical cities have disappeared so completely from view, over the centuries, as Thespiai in Central Greece. Only the technique of intensive field survey, carefully adapted to a large urban site and reinforced by historical investigation, has made it possible to recover from oblivion much of its life of seven millennia.

• Complete volume - Boeotia Project, Volume II: The city of Thespiai
• Chapter 1 - Introduction: the survey of the city of Thespiai
• Chapter 2 - The site of ancient Thespiai and the early travellers
• Chapter 3(a) - Interpreting the density and period map series: methodology
• Chapter 3(b) - Interpreting the density and period map series: the analysis
• Chapter 3(c) - Interpreting the density and period map series: the final period maps
• Chapter 4 - The architectural survey
• Chapter 5 - A brief history of independent Thespiai
• Chapter 6 - Thespiai: the epigraphic city down to 171 BC
• Chapter 7 - The Roman fate of Thespiai (171 BC – fourth century AD)
• Chapter 8 - The history of Thespiai and Boeotia from Late Antiquity to the Frankish period
• Chapter 9 - Thespia – Zogra Kobila – Erimokastro – Kaskaveli in the Ottoman Period, according to unpublished or little-known Ottoman Administrative Sources
• Chapter 10(a) - The Neolithic site at the Thespiai Magoula
• Chapter 10(b) - The Bronze Age pottery
• Chapter 11 - The pottery of the Early Iron Age to the Hellenistic periods
• Chapter 12 - Urban Thespiai: the Late Hellenistic to Late Roman pottery
• Chapter 13 - The Byzantine to Early Modern pottery from Thespiai
• Chapter 14 - The coins of Thespiai
• Chapter 15 - Conclusion
• Bibliography

Supplementary material

• Appendix 1 - Remaining period maps (Ch.3)
• Appendix 2 - 1985 pottery database spreadsheet (Ch.3)
• Appendix 3 - 1986 pottery database spreadsheet (Ch.3)
• Appendix 4 - The ‘Rome Catalogue’ (Ch.4)
• Appendix 5 - Pottery catalogue to accompany Chapter 12
• Appendix 6 - Catalogue of Byzantine to Early Modern pottery to accompany Chapter 13
• Appendix 7 - Table of artefact density and visibility measurements for Thespiai City (Ch.3b)