Ergasteria:: Works Presented to John Ellis Jones on His 80th Birthday

This volume is the fourth to appear in the monograph series 'Akanthina', published for the Institute of Archaeology of Gdansk University, Poland. As the title suggests, the volume, which was presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th birthday of October 10th 2009, consists of a collection of articles written by his friends, colleagues, pupils and admirers. The front cover is decorated with one of the dedicatee's more recent famous watercolours of the Dema House. The book starts with a tribute to John Ellis Jones written by Hugh Sackett including a colour photograph of the dedicatee at work, then a bibliography of his publications. The following individual contributions deal mainly with Jones' principal field of interest: ancient mining, Attica, bee-keeping, ceramics and the classical heritage in Wales. Individual contributions are as follows: John Prag, "Lost and Found: the Tale of a Miner's Shovel" 15-21; David W.J. Gill, "Amenhotep III, Mycenae and the Laurion", 22-35; James Whitley, "Eteocretans and Eteo-britons: The Intellectual Prehistory of the Minoans", 36-43; R.W.V. Catling, "A Spartan Craftsman of Ionian Origin?" 44-55; Susan Deacy, "'Knowing the story told about Erichthonios': looking at 'the goddess Athena, the maiden warrior" 56-64; Tracy E. Rihll, "Athens' Silver Springs" 65-75; Michael Vickers, "Hagnon, Amphipolis and Rhesus" 76-81; Philip de Souza, "Raids on the coast of Attica" 82-93; John Davies, "Mines, Miners and Macedon" 94-99; Graham Shipley, "Pseudo-Scylax on Attica" 100-114; Stephen Lambert, "Athens, Sokles and the Exploitation of an Attic Resource (IG II2 411)" 115-125; Nicholas Sekunda, "The Golden Pig Tower" 126-149; David Blackman, Catherine Bouras, John Hayes, Maria Costanza Lentini, "Miscellanea Apicula" 150-158; Hugh Sackett, "A Knidian thymiaterion from Roman Knossos" 159-168; Duncan Cloud, "The Lex Horrendi Carminis of Livy" 169-177; Ceri Davies, "Cambrian Euripides: Three Welsh-Language Versions of the Alcestis" 178-188.