The Aegean and its Cultures: Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22-23 April 2005

Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, April 2005. Contents: 1) Framing the Aegean (Georgios Deligiannakis); 2) What's in a Word? The Manifold Character of the Term Koiné and its Uses in Aegean Prehistory (Yannis Galanakis); 3) An aspect of the 'Mycenaean koiné'? The Uniformity of the Peloponnesian Late Helladic III Palatial Megara in its Heterogeneous Context (Vassilis Petrakis); 4) The Dissemination of Attic Pottery During the Protogeometric and Geometric Periods (Fani K. Seroglou); 5) Domestic space in the Geometric and post-Geometric Aegean: An Attempt to Reconstruct Morphology and Function in 8th and 7th c. BC Houses in the Cyclades and the Eastern Aegean (Anastasia Christophilopoulou); 6) The Contexts of Archaic Cretan Terracotta Relief Plaques with a Note on the Oxford Plaques from Papoura (Oliver Pilz); 7) Extra-Urban Sanctuaries in Classical and Hellenistic Crete (Angelos Chaniotis); 8) Vogue and Utility: Terracotta Products with Ionian Kymation in Relief from the Aegean Shores of Thrace (Petya Ilieva); 9) Preliminary Report of the 'Halasarna Project': An Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Ancient Demos Halasarna on Kos (Konstantinos Kopanias); 10) The Coan Banquet Reliefs: Parallels in the Aegean Region (Chrysanthe Tsouli) 11) Stone Agricultural Implements from the Island of Kos. The Evidence from Kardamaina, the Ancient Demos of Halasarna (Eirene Poupaki); 12) Searching for Byzantine Model-Books based on Artists' Inscriptions from the Middle Byzantine Period (Lambros Travlos); 13) Coexistence in the Aegean under the Ottomans (Elizabeth A. Zachariadou); 14) The Dark Side of the Sun: Aegean Islands as Places of Exile, Desolation and Death in post-World War II Greek Poetry (Eirini Kotsovili); 15) The Concept of Authenticity in Managing Cultural Heritage Resources. The Aegean Paradigm (Stelios Lekakis).