This is the fourth volume of the journal of the Danish Institute at
Athens with articles in the fields of Greek archaeology, history,
philology and literature. The present volume contains two philological
articles: Alkibiades and The Phaedrus: The Politics of the Appetites by
Doug Al-Maini, and The Platonic Corpus in Antiquity by Jorgen Mejer.
Birte Lundgreen's article, Use and Abuse of Athena in Roman Imperial
Portraiture: The Case of Julia Domna, discusses the uses of Imperial
Roman portraiture, particularly in the eastern provinces. Anne Marie
Carstens has investigated Rock-Cut Tombs in the Halikarnassos Peninsula
in Asia Minor and highlights the regional character of burial customs in
the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Death in Aetolia: The Hellenistic
Graves at Aetolian Chalkis by Jonas Eiring also draws attention to the
regionality of burial customs with examples from Western Greece. The
article includes the publication of a multiple-burial, Early Hellenistic
tomb in Aetolian Chalkis. From the same site, and in continuation of the
reports published in Proceedings II and III, Greek-Danish Excavations in
Aetolian Chalkis 1999-2001: Third Preliminary Report covers the three
final seasons of the excavations at this site on the northern shore of
the Gulf of Patras. A general account of the results of excavations, by
Sanne Houby-Nielsen and Ioannis Moschos, is followed by the second
article on the coins from the site, by Georgia Alexopoulou, and a
detailed discussion of the shellfish found on site, by Kaj Strand
Pedersen. It also contains a report by Efy Saranti on a Middle- and Late
Helladic site in the nearby village of Gavrolimni, as well as an account
of the Stone Age remains in the cave of Hagios Nikolaos by Lasse
Sorensen.
