A collection of 60 papers from a symposium held in Vienna in March 1999
on relations and interactions' in the Aegean and West Mediterranean
between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. The contributors examine the
influence of Aegean culture on western countries, particularly Italy,
and assess how this interaction in turn affected Greek cities. The
essays, which reflect recent archaeological and theoretical
developments, are divided into nine thematic groups: urbanism, the polis
and its environs, religion, architecture, sculpture, crafts, ceramics
and paintings, trade and colonisation. Papers in Italian, English,
German and French.