Ancient Greece: The Dawn of the Western World - Furio Durando - Hardcover

Furio Durando was born in Milan in 1960. An archaeologist by profession and university teacher, he studied classics and archaeology at the University of Milan before obtaining a Master of Archaeology from the University of Bologna. He has taken part in excavations and topographical surveys in various parts of Italy. In particular he has conducted experimental projects involving metrological and archaeometric research on Archaic Greek and Phoenician amphorae in the central western Mediterranean. He has also studied figured Attic pottery found in Pithekoussai (Ischia). His many other activities have included cataloguing literary and epigraphic sources, "reconstructing" Roman road and land division systems in and around the city of Cremona, and curating La pianura bolognese nel Villanoviano (The Bologna plain in the Early Iron Age), an exhibition held in Bologna in 1994. Furio Durando has published numerous articles on his research findings. He is currently working on a monograph about Cremona in Roman times and a catalogue of the figured Attic pottery unearthed in Ischia.Durando, Furio is the author of 'Ancient Greece: The Dawn of the Western World - Furio Durando - Hardcover' with ISBN 9781586637583 and ISBN 1586637584.