{"title":"The Myth of the Ionian Agora: Investigating the Enclosure of Greek Public Space through Archaeological and Historical Sources","authors":"C. Dickenson","doi":"10.2972/hesperia.88.3.0557","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Pausanias famously compared the loose arrangement of stoas in the agora of Elis to the more formalized plan that he associated with Ionia. Modern scholars have assumed that the “Ionian agora” was therefore a specific type of public square. Classifying agoras by type has supported the interpretation that the enclosure of agoras by stoas in Hellenistic and Roman times is symptomatic of civic decline. This article argues that the Ionian agora is a modern construction and makes the case for a new approach to agora enclosure that takes more account of how the Greeks used and experienced their public squares over time.","PeriodicalId":44554,"journal":{"name":"Annual of the British School at Athens","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annual of the British School at Athens","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.88.3.0557","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Pausanias famously compared the loose arrangement of stoas in the agora of Elis to the more formalized plan that he associated with Ionia. Modern scholars have assumed that the “Ionian agora” was therefore a specific type of public square. Classifying agoras by type has supported the interpretation that the enclosure of agoras by stoas in Hellenistic and Roman times is symptomatic of civic decline. This article argues that the Ionian agora is a modern construction and makes the case for a new approach to agora enclosure that takes more account of how the Greeks used and experienced their public squares over time.
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The School"s major publication, the Annual of the British School at Athens, is an illustrated volume of over 300 pages, with its Centenary volume appearing in 1995. It is a peer-reviewed journal, which publishes accounts of the School"s projects and articles on a wide range of Hellenic subjects. The table of contents for Volumes 103 and 104 (2008 and 2009) are available below, along with information for contributors. The Annual is available to Subscribing Members of the School. Alternatively, contact the London Secretary for subscription information.
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