This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation to the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of scholars has contributed essays on a wide range of subjects (Greek sculpture, epigraphy and architecture), which reflect the interests of the honorand. New, previously unpublished material from Messenia, Athens and elsewhere is here presented for the first time. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions to this book extends from the Geometric period to the Roman Empire and from Macedonia to Crete and Magna Graecia.

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editors' Preface
• Petros Themelis: An Archaeological Bibliography 1962–2010
  • Book reviews
• 1. A Melian fenestrated stand in the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
• 2. Ténos – Délos: réflexions sur quelques problèmes d'histoire et d'archéologie
  • Annualité de l'archontat
  • L'oikos des Déliens de Délos
  • Les trois dominations athéniennes
  • Les affaires du banquier, Timôn de Syracuse
  • Abbréviations
  • Ténos: bibliographie 40
• 3. Eine spätarchaische Jünglingsstele in Eleusis
  • Abkürzungen
• 4. La Sibilla Cumana
  • I Campi flegrei
  • Il Lago d'Averno
  • Virgilio Mago
  • La storia di Cuma
  • La rocca di Cuma
  • Il tempio di Apollo, dio protettore della Sibilla
  • L'Antro della Sibilla
  • La Sibilla Cumana
  • L'interpretazione cristiana della Sibilla
  • Bibliografia
• 5. Alkibiades
• 6. Athenian decrees of 404/3 to 86 B.C. passed at the same meeting
  • Abbreviations
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • Acknowledgements
• 7. (Yet another) note on the Olympia Hermes and Dionysos
  • Acknowledgements
• 8. New perspectives on the workshop of the Derveni krater
• 9. Arsinoe Philopator und Menander. Zwei griechische Portraits in Norfolk (Virginia)
  • Arsinoe III. Philopator ( Abb. 9.1 – 9.3 )
  • Menander
• 10. Limestone reliefs with raised hands from Messene
  • Acknowledgements
  • Catalogue
  • Abbreviations
• 11. The Sacred Gerousia in the Peloponnese: a new epigraphic document from Ancient Korone
  • Epigraphical commentary
  • The
  • The honorific title ἑστία πόλεως
  • The family of Γ. ’Iούλιος Θεαγένης from Korone
  • Acknowledgements
• 12. Eleuthernaean pilgrims inside the Melidoni Cave (Tallaeum Antrum)
  • Acknowledgements
• 13. A new portrait of the emperor Hadrian
  • Acknowledgements
• 14. Kaiserzeitliche Theaterbauten in Griechenland
  • Geographische Verbreitung
  • Chronologie
  • Zur Architektur der kaiserzeitlichen Theater in Griechenland
  • Abkürzungen
• 15. Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg der Olympia-Skulpturen – zur frühen Rezeption des Strengen Stils
  • Abkürzungen