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hawkwing_lbBooks 2010: 103
non-fiction
103. R.A. Tomlinson, Epidauros, London, Granada, 1983.
This is a short overview of the sanctuary complex at Epidauros. By short, I mean very short: less than one hundred pages. It is divided into two parts: an "Introduction" (a little more than a third of the book) which sketches and briefly analysises the history of the excavation of the site and the publication of the various excavations, particularly the excavations of P. Kavvadias at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
The second part is "Monuments" and comprises a description of the archaeological remains, and a - necessarily brief - discussion of their functions where these are disputed. The minutiae of archaeological description is relieved by a selection of plans and black and white photographs. Useful for those interested in Asklepios and Apollo in his local form of Apollo Meleatas, but not exactly riveting otherwise.
A book a day. So far. This is progress.
non-fiction
103. R.A. Tomlinson, Epidauros, London, Granada, 1983.
This is a short overview of the sanctuary complex at Epidauros. By short, I mean very short: less than one hundred pages. It is divided into two parts: an "Introduction" (a little more than a third of the book) which sketches and briefly analysises the history of the excavation of the site and the publication of the various excavations, particularly the excavations of P. Kavvadias at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
The second part is "Monuments" and comprises a description of the archaeological remains, and a - necessarily brief - discussion of their functions where these are disputed. The minutiae of archaeological description is relieved by a selection of plans and black and white photographs. Useful for those interested in Asklepios and Apollo in his local form of Apollo Meleatas, but not exactly riveting otherwise.
A book a day. So far. This is progress.
