On this episode of the Peopling the Past Podcast, we are joined by Dr. Lana Radloff, Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at Bishop’s University.
Listen in, as she discusses her research on seascapes, the ancient sensory experience of the Mediterranean, and the city of Miletus.
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Additional Resources Related to this Episode
Miletus (General)
Gorman, V.B. 2001. Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia: A History of the City to 400 B.C.E. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Greaves, A.M. 2002. Miletos: a history. New York: Routledge.
Greaves, A.M. 2000a. “The Shifting Focus of Settlement at Miletos.” In Further studies in the ancient Greek polis (Historia Einzelschriften 138), edited by P. Flensted-Jensen, 57-72. Stuttgart: F. Steiner.
Greaves, A.M. 2000b. “Miletos and the Sea: a stormy relationship.” In The Sea in Antiquity (BAR International series 899), edited by G.J. Oliver, R. Brock, T. Cornell, and S. Hodkinson, 39-61. Oxford: BAR.
Radloff, L. 2019. “‘Placing’ a Maritime Territory at Hellenistic Miletos.” Conference Proceedings, Signs of Place: a Visual Interpretation of Landscape, Excellence Cluster Topoi, Freie University, Berlin, edited by R. Döhl and J. Jansen van Rensburg, 97-118.
Thonemann, P. 2011. The Maeander Valley. A Historical Geography From Antiquity to Byzantium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Miletus: Geoarchaeology
Brückner, H., Müllenhoff, M., Gehrels, R., Herda, A., Knipping, M., and Vött, A. 2006. “From archipelago to floodplain — geographical and ecological changes in Miletus and its environs during the past six millennia (Western Anatolia, Turkey),” Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F. Suppl. Vol. 142: 63-83.
Brückner, H., Herda, A., Kerschner, M, Müllenhoff, M, and Stock, F. 2017. “Life Cycle of Estuarine Islands—From the Formation to the Landlocking of Former Islands in the Environs of Miletos and Ephesos in Western Asia Minor (Turkey),” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 12: 876-94.
Müllenhoff, M., Herda, A., and Brückner, H. 2009. “Geoarchaeology in the City of Thales Deciphering Palaeogeographic Changes in the Agora Area of Miletus.” In Mensch und Umwelt im Spiegel der Zeit: Aspekte geoarchäologischer Forschungen im östlichen Mittelmeergebiet, edited by T. Mattern and A. Vött, 97-110. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Miletus: Harbor Lions
von Graeve, V. 1996. “Zu Hafenlöwen von Milet.” In Fremde Zeiten. Festschrift für Jürgen Borchhardt zum sechzigsten Geburtstag am 25. Februar 1996, edited by F. Blakolmer, K.R. Krierer, F. Krinzinger, A. Landskron-Dinstl, H.D. Szemethy, and K. Zhuber-Okrog, 317-27. Wien: Phoibos Verlag.
Miletos: Cult of Aphrodite
Greaves, A.M. 2004. “The Cult of Aphrodite in Miletos and its Colonies,” Anatolian Studies 54: 27-33.
Senff, R. 2003. “Das Aphroditeheiligtum von Milet.” In Neue Forschungen zur Religionsgeschichte Kleinasiens. Elmar Schwertheim zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet, edited by G. Heedemann and E. Winter, 11-25. Bonn.
Miletos: Cult of Apollo
Herda, A. 2006a. Der Apollon-Delphinios-Kult in Milet und die Neujahrsprozession nach Didyma. Ein neuer Kommentar der sog. Molpoi-Satzung (Milesische Forschungen 4). Mainz: von Zabern.
Maritime Theory & Seafaring
Casson, L. 1971. Ships and seamanship in the ancient world. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Casson, L. 1991. The ancient mariners: seafarers and sea fighters of the Mediterranean in ancient times. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Hedgpeth, J.W. 1976. “The Living Edge,” Geoscience and Man 14.1: 17-51.
Ford, B. 2011. “The Shoreline as a Bridge, Not a Boundary: Cognitive Maritime Landscapes of Lake Ontario.” In The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes, edited by B. Ford, 63-80. New York: Springer.
Morton, J. 2001. The role of the physical environment in ancient Greek seafaring. Leiden: Brill. Pullen, D. and Tartaron, T. 2007. “Where’s the Palace? The Absence of State Formation in the Late Bronze Age Corinthia.” In Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II, edited by M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson, 146-58. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California.
Westerdahl, C. 1992. “The Maritime Cultural Landscape,” IJNA 21.1: 5-14.
Burgaz Harbours Project and Space-Syntax Modelling
Hillier, B. and Hanson, J. 1984. The Social Logic of Space. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Radloff, L., Greene, E.S., Leidwanger, J., Tuna, N., and Atıcı, N. forthcoming. “Structuring Urban and Maritime Space at Burgaz, Turkey.” Conference Proceedings, Karia and the Dodekanese, Cultural interrelations in the southeastern Aegean ca. 500 BC – AD 500, The Danish Institute at Athens, January 24-26, 2018, Volume 1, edited by J. Lund, P. Pederson, and B. Poulson, 181-92. Oxbow.
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