The Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens

by John M. Camp

The Agora was the great public square in ancient Athens. Drawing on the wealth of excavated evidence, and supplemented by literary and inscriptional references, this book tells the story of the Agora from Neolithic to medieval times.

Genres: Archaeology, History, Nonfiction, Greece

231 pages, Hardcover

First published July 28, 1986

About the author

John Camp is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Classics at Randolph-Macon College. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1968, and his M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology (1977) from Princeton University. He has worked in the Athenian Agora since 1966, first as an excavator, later as assistant director, and now as the director, which he became in 1994.

Reviews

[Lauren Stoolfire]

The previous owner took quite a few notes in the margins and I spent the most of my time reading those and checking out the pictures.

[Vassilis]

Great book by THE suitable person to write about the Athenian Agora: Camp, who leads the excavations of the ancient Agora for many decades now. The book leads the reader through all the main periods of Athens, where Agora was central to its function, connecting the history puzzle pieces finding by finding, building by building, historical milestone by historical milestone, always giving significant information and insights on how Athens functioned from a political, legal, social, architectural, philisophical, military or any other point of view. Camp masterfully combines archaelogy with history with culture with practical info to give a holistic view of what ancient Athens and Athenian Agora meant and keep meaning for Greece and the rest of the world. Surely recommended!

[Sanford Holst]

Excellent information and diagrams on the excavations in Athens' Agora.

[E]

Fantastically intertesting.