Thematic Index of Classics in JStor

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The work presented here was developed by David Mimno under the Cybereditions Project, an effort led by the Perseus Project at Tufts University and funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Hymettiana II: An Ancient Quarry on Mt. Hymettos

Merle K. Langdon

American Journal of Archaeology. (Jan., 1988) pp. 75-83

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[366 words] athens, acropolis, agora, wall, tower, city, gate, towers, attica, hesperia, pausanias, walls, plan, piraeus, hill, travlos, judeich, greece, built, eleusis, athenian, dorpfeld, akropolis, fortifications, circuit, pnyx, wycherley, athenian_agora, fortification, thompson

[225 words] block, blocks, upper, edge, bottom, face, holes, stone, length, lower, height, base, front, hole, wide, width, cutting, sides, diameter, feet, broken, vertical, corner, high, ends, edges, position, along, flat, slightly

[93 words] room, wall, floor, building, fill, level, trench, pottery, walls, fragments, debris, house, layer, corner, earth, deposit, construction, along, stones, destruction, rooms, built, bedrock, sherds, clay, early, excavated, phase, levels, upper

[89 words] building, city, early, excavated, period, buildings, finds, walls, pottery, complex, town, hellenistic, revealed, structures, located, architectural, byzantine, periods, built, construction, occupation, sanctuary, structure, houses, plan, uncovered, around, tombs, along, wadi

[71 words] road, river, along, route, miles, valley, plain, hill, town, distance, land, mountain, across, coast, village, city, mountains, hills, roads, pass, line, region, bridge, island, southern, water, lake, lies, ground, places

[63 words] glass, iron, copper, metal, lead, bronze, clay, silver, process, gold, mining, analysis, mines, samples, ingots, materials, casting, produced, sample, production, metals, chemical, analyses, furnace, oxide, firing, glaze, alloy, temperature, smelting

[60 words] temple, columns, column, building, frieze, capital, parthenon, capitals, temples, doric, ionic, cella, architectural, dinsmoor, blocks, geison, sima, corner, fragments, height, architecture, flank, base, marble, buildings, stylobate, front, hephaisteion, design, block

[52 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[50 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[39 words] church, byzantine, basilica, christian, churches, christ, apse, early_christian, constantinople, nave, mediaeval, mosaic, mosaics, monastery, twelfth, inscription, cross, sophia, eleventh, chapel, narthex, saint, frescoes, chalice, byzantium, sixth, tenth, mosque, mango, dome

[36 words] trade, economic, population, local, production, city, italy, empire, cities, urban, commercial, period, early, economy, market, rural, goods, towns, roman_empire, wealth, products, region, commerce, slaves, industry, grain, decline, italian, distribution, agricultural

[34 words] wall, building, blocks, stoa, foundation, foundations, temple, corner, level, built, walls, agora, terrace, construction, poros, front, theater, marble, steps, line, plan, along, street, structure, altar, sanctuary, rock, face, block, early

[25 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[25 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[24 words] wall, walls, room, building, house, rooms, built, plan, houses, floor, entrance, door, court, stone, construction, buildings, central, palace, roof, structure, level, front, upper, chamber, wide, interior, space, rectangular, corner, open

[21 words] mycenaean, cyprus, pottery, aegean, period, mycenae, early, cycladic, mainland, tombs, bronze_age, greece, cyclades, tomb, crete, blegen, cypriot, tiryns, minoan, troy, late_helladic, figurines, iiib, graves, cypriote, late_bronze_age, lerna, wace, grave, middle_helladic

[18 words] comments, suggestions, helpful, anonymous, help, version, advice, draft, assistance, valuable, referee, express, gratitude, referees, encouragement, professors, provided, reading, criticism, seminar, criticisms, generous, humanities, drafts, grant, colleagues, acknowledge, classics, delivered, errors

[17 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[15 words] studien, akademie, heidelberg, wissenschaften, sprache, stuttgart, uber, untersuchungen, grammatik, griechen, beitrage, bonn, alten, vols, neue, muller, forschungen, festschrift, handbuch, altertumswissenschaft, klassischen, diss, wien, burckhardt, literatur, lateinischen, lateinische, wilhelm, otto, philologie

[15 words] white, black, clay, brown, color, gray, fabric, ware, yellow, slip, dark, paint, buff, coarse, painted, reddish, inclusions, burnished, exterior, bowl, interior, core, fragment, green, fragments, glaze, blue, sherd, base, hard

[14 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[14 words] neolithic, greece, data, obsidian, artifacts, prehistoric, lerna, analysis, blades, samples, regional, southern, radiocarbon, bronze_age, landscape, franchthi, tools, production, valley, blade, argolid, cave, runnels, faunal, ceramic, region, deposits, materials, flakes, cores

[13 words] pottery, level, period, levels, mound, phase, stone, early, trench, neolithic, ware, excavated, stratum, sherds, building, occupation, tell, phases, troy, houses, strata, walls, deposits, chalcolithic, clay, bronze, upper, burials, layer, finds

[13 words] your, something, take, things, thing, enough, done, really, anything, himself, look, mind, mean, away, going, want, keep, matter, sort, every, kind, doing, else, tell, suppose, having, ever, words, help, understand

[10 words] money, property, paid, payment, amount, price, talents, land, sale, value, financial, cost, received, wealth, gold, private, treasury, public, taxes, drachmas, sold, denarii, payments, income, sesterces, silver, debt, funds, contract, loan

[8 words] role, context, image, contrast, sense, narrative, audience, reader, text, power, language, theme, images, function, traditional, reading, imagery, himself, becomes, makes, central, literary, complex, focus, meaning, perspective, status, level, process, emphasis

[8 words] atti, nella, florence, naples, nell, degli, sulla, italia, romano, alla, turin, archeologia, greca, istituto, napoli, onore, ricerche, pisa, bologna, antichita, italian, antico, classica, bari, mondo, sull, cultura, argues, secolo, greco

[7 words] army, city, military, took, troops, himself, control, power, events, position, situation, policy, force, sent, return, revolt, attack, victory, peace, forces, defeat, action, soon, attempt, success, battle, enemy, became, command, remained

[7 words] cicero, sulla, pompey, caesar, crassus, marius, senate, catiline, pompeius, clodius, consul, sallust, plutarch, plut, consulship, cato, lucullus, metellus, political, appian, badian, piso, gabinius, scaurus, tribune, praetor, antonius, broughton, curio, cinna

[7 words] france, bibliotheque, collection, lettres, ecole, siecle, gaule, jean, manuscrits, societe, nationale, acad, henri, grece, tome, grecs, insc, recueil, antiques, bagaudes, cernunnos, bordeaux, monnaies, travaux, saint, pierre, paul, ville, picard, lantier

[6 words] agora, lamps, hesperia, amphora, thompson, athens, pottery, hellenistic, amphoras, terracotta, athenian_agora, attic, deposit, lamp, early, corinthian, corinth, stamp, stamped, _4th_century, stamps, clay, bowls, fragments, handles, _2nd_century, jars, terracottas, _3rd_century, pieces

[6 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[5 words] text, reading, readings, manuscripts, manuscript, edition, error, errors, tradition, scribe, correct, editors, archetype, variants, omitted, emendation, corrected, correction, variant, passages, written, corrections, omission, source, apparatus, corruption, texts, editions, conjecture, copied

[5 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[5 words] latin, classics, teachers, program, teaching, courses, schools, programs, classicists, high_school, humanities, education, teacher, student, colleges, curriculum, national, conference, materials, summer, information, educational, camws, classroom, departments, computer, foreign_language, scholarship, faculty, teach

[5 words] animals, animal, birds, fish, bird, dogs, sheep, species, eagle, hunting, fable, goat, lion, wild, beasts, goats, pliny, wolf, cattle, swallow, creatures, hunt, deer, bones, lions, cock, young, aristotle, nightingale, simile