Palagia, Wescoat, Samothracian Connections: Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie (2010)
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Εκδοτικό Σημείωμα / Editor’s preface by Olga Palagia and Bonna D. Wescoat
"Our honoree, James (Jim) R. McCredie, was born on New Year’s Eve in Chicago, and grew up in Elgin, Illinois. He was educated at Philips Exeter Academy and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. He received his PhD from Harvard as well. As a graduate student he participated in field seasons at Gordion and Sardis in Turkey, and Porto Rafti, Attica, in Greece. An appropriate prelude to what became his life’s work on Samothrace was his participation in the excavation of the 3rd-century B.C. Ptolemaic military camp at Koroni in Attica and the subsequent publication of his dissertation, Fortified Military Camps in Attica (Hesperia Supplement XI, 1966). This monograph is a pioneering contribution to the history and archaeology of Athens and Attica in the 3rd century B.C. It revised the history of the Chremonidean War and occasioned the down-dating of Attic black glaze pottery by about twenty years.
In 1962 McCredie transferred his commitment to the northern Aegean, where he joined the Samothracian team first as field director for Phyllis Williams Lehmann. In 1966 he became director. Over the course of nearly half a century of research he has contributed to the discovery and study of the most significant aspects of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods of Samothrace. 
McCredie taught classical archaeology at the Institute of fine Arts in New York from 1963 until his appointment as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1969, a post he held until 1977. In 1978 he returned to the Institute of Fine Arts as professor, and became its director from 1983 to 2002. He trained several generations of graduate students of art, archaeology and conservation, both in the classroom and on Samothrace. Under his directorship the Institute experienced a veritable golden age of Greek archaeology, when a brilliant cast of Institute professors, curators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and visiting European scholars offered seminars on a wide range of subjects. The American School of Classical Studies, the Institute of Fine Arts and the Samothrace excavations have profited from his sharp mind, his generosity, his organizational skills and the inspiration he provided to younger colleagues and students. The number of students and colleagues who participated in research and excavations during McCredie’s tenure as director at Samothrace is striking testimony to his reach across the ield of classical archaeology. Their names appear at the end of this volume. McCredie’s long involvement with the Institute of fine Arts, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and with the Samothrace excavations are discussed in separate essays of this volume. In addition to being an honorary citizen of Samothrace, honorary member of the Archaeological Society of Athens, and the recipient of a gold medal of the pan-Samothracian Hearth of Athens, McCredie holds an honorary degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The volume in hand is a collection of essays on the archaeology and epigraphy of Samothrace, Macedonia and Alexandria by colleagues and pupils paying tribute to McCredie’s lifetime of devotion to the Sanctuary of the Great Gods and the influences that shaped it. The authors have all worked with McCredie in some capacity and are indebted to him for his guidance and wisdom. The editors offer him this volume in token of appreciation and affection, hoping that it will serve to illuminate larger issues as well as some less well-known aspects of the archaeology of Samothrace that became more accessible thanks to his efforts and to those of his collaborators for over half a century. The editors wish to thank Irene Romano for her support, Brenda Phifer Schrobe and Mary-Elizabeth Mitchell for their help, and Rachel Foulk and Susan Blevins for their assistance in assembling the manuscript.
The publication of this volume was made possible thanks to the sponsorship of Charles K. Williams, Alan Boegehold and anonymous donors. We thank David Brown for agreeing to publish it in his series. The papers follow the guidelines and abbreviations of Hesperia”. 
ΠΕΡΙΕΧΟΜΕΝΑ / CONTENTS: Editors’ preface v. Contributors vi. 1. James R. McCredie and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens p. 1 Irene Bald Romano. 2. James R. McCredie and the Institute of fine Arts, New York University p. 3 Mariët Westermann and Patricia Rubin. 3. James R. McCredie and Samothracian Architecture p. 5 Bonna D. Wescoat. 4. Problems in Island Archaeology: Towards an Archaeology of Religion on Samothrace p. 33 Dimitris Matsas. 5. Apollo Arrives at Samothrace p. 50 Mary B. Moore.
6. Moldmade Bowls at Samothrace p. 60 Susan I. Rotroff. 7. “Up Against the Wall”: Anta design in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace p. 74 Bonna D. Wescoat. 8. Choroi, Theōriai and International Ambitions: The Hall of Choral dancers and its frieze p. 106 Clemente Marconi. 9. A New Ceiling for the Hieron in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace p. 136 Amy A. Sowder. 10. The Victory of Samothrace and the Aftermath of the Battle of Pydna p.154 Olga Palagia. 11. Marble Votive Statuettes of Women from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace p. 165 Sheila Dillon. 12. A Marble Krater from Samothrace p. 173 Jasper Gaunt. 13. L. Calpurnius Piso: Greece and Herculaneum p. 179 Carol C. Mattusch. 14. Maroneia Honors Q. Lutatius Catulus in Samothrace p. 186 Kevin Clinton and Nora Dimitrova. 15. An Inscription on Roman Samothrace p. 193 Robert L. Pounder. 16. The Conservation program in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace p. 199 Stephen P. Koob. 17. A Fayum Teacher’s Manual, Alexandrian pavilion Architecture, and Augustan Wall-painting p. 211 R. R. R. Smith. 18. Homer in Florina p. 222 Ioannis Akamatis.
Colleagues and Students who worked with James R. McCredie on Samothrace, 1962–2008 p. 241.
Σελίδες / Pages -vi, 1-242.