Anne-Catherine Gillis

The ancient Greek crafts, which have already been studied for their technical aspects, hides other realities. The craftsman is in fact not only a producer of artefacts, but also an actor in religious life and evolves in a rich symbolic, psychological and social universe.

The archaeological approach of the economies of the classical world is here implemented by production sectors and over the long term, well beyond classical Greece: deliberately putting aside the ceramic production, well studied elsewhere, the authors focus on areas of craft production generally poorly known by historians (textile, metallurgy, glass