This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture), which reflect the interests of the honorand. New, previously unpublished material from Messenia, Athens and elsewhere is here presented for the first time. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions to this book extends from the Geometric period to the Roman Empire and from Macedonia to Crete and Magna Graecia.
Editors’ Preface: Petros Themelis: An Archaeological Bibliography 1962–2010
1. A Melian fenestrated stand in the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney (Alexander Cambitoglou)
2. Ténos – Délos: reflexions sur quelques problèmes d’histoire et d’archéologie (Roland Étienne)
3. Eine spätarchaische Jünglingsstele in Eleusis (Bernhard Schmaltz)
4. La Sibilla Cumana (Umberto Pappalardo)
5. Alkibiades (Stephen G. Miller)
6. Athenian decrees of 404/3 to 86 B.C. passed at the same meeting (Stephen V. Tracy)
7. (Yet another) note on the Olympia Hermes and Dionysos (Andrew Stewart)
8. New perspectives on the workshop of the Derveni krater (Beryl Barr-Sharrar)
9. Arsinoe Philopator und Menander (Hans Rupprecht Goette)
10. Limestone reliefs with raised hands from Messene (Olga Palagia)
11. A new member in the family of C. Iulius Theagenes from Ancient Korone in Messenia (Andronike Makres)
12. Eleuthernean pilgrims inside the Melidoni cave (Tallaeum Antrum) (Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos)
13. A new portrait of the Emperor Hadrian (Alkestis Choremi-Spetsieri)
14. Kaiserzeitliche Theaterbauten in Griechenland (Hans Peter Isler)
15. Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg der Olympia-Skulpturen – zur frühen Rezeption des Strengen Stils (Dietrich Willers)