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Oxbow says: In the early 8th century BC a Greek colony was
established by the Parians on the island of Hvar in the Adriatic
Sea, off the coast of modern Croatia. This volume presents a
synthesis of what is known of this Greek colony gleaned from
archaeological, written, epigraphic and numismatic sources. Branko
Kirigin provides a review of the remains of Pharos and of research
carried out on the city, before turning to what can be determined
of its social organisation and administration, its economy,
coinage, pottery, its cults and burial rituals, and the life of its
most famous hero Demetrius of Pharos and his battle with the Roman
consul Aemilius Paulus in 219BC which led to the destruction of the
city.
The third volume in The Adriatic Islands Project, The work
utilises, essentially, the same research methodologies developed
for survey on Hvar and Brae. The continuing reliance of project
staff on complex computer technologies to store and analyse the
large project databases also remains, and the impact of the
increasing sophistication of these technologies for display of data
can be seen in this publication. This book, covering prehistory to
medieval times, is divided into two parts, reflecting the diverse
nature of the areas under study.
The first volume from the Adriatic Islands project comprises the
results from a thorough survey and mapping of the Dalmatian island
of Hvar in Croatia. The area has long played an important role on
trade routes between Italy and Illyria and Greece. There is a great
deal of Neolithic archaeology, Bronze and Iron age burial monuments
and much Greco-Roman material. The bulk of this book is a gazetter
of around 800 sites, each of them having been visited by members of
the team. The entries include plans, descriptions and references.
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