Bücher der Reihe Göttinger Forschungen zur Mediterranen Kultur

The famous ancient philologist of Göttingen University and founding father of classical archaeology and ancient history Müller [28/08/1797 Brieg-01/08/1840 Athens] toured Greece in the four last months of his life, together with Neise, Ernst Curtius, and Gustav Adolf Schöll. During this journey, Neise produced high-quality drawings of recently found and previously unseen ancient sculpture and authentic Greek landscapes that no longer exist today. Years of tedious research were spent with the classification, arrangement, and inventory of the images, visits to the sites in the countryside, and the compilation of the relevant contemporaneous texts. The drawings were already on display in exhibitions from 1997 to 2002 but are published in print for the first time here. The book contains two forewords, biographies of all travel companions, an overview of routes and sites, Müller's and Neise's diaries, Neise's report on Müller's work at Delphi, Curtius's and Schöll's descriptions of Müller's disease and passing as well as a catalogue and plates with Neise's drawings. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the longtime secretary of the Göttingen Archaeological Institute, Monika Awad [1956-2022].

The volume presents 20 contributions from two colloquia held as part of the DAAD Southern European Dialogue in Göttingen in June 2022 and Palermo in October 2022 under the direction of the editors and Aurelio Burgio. An introduction by the editors is followed by papers on an overview of demography and archaeology, methods and problems of archaeological proxy data for population dynamics, archaeological demography north and south of the Alps, a diachronic comparison of early populations, three case studies on the demography of Sicily, population estimates for Boeotia, and Attic funeral reliefs as a source for the demography of Athens. Other topics include extra-urban settlement structures and demography, demographic change in Lycia, the research project "Roman Empire of 2000 cities", population numbers and proportions in Republican colonies in Italy, the demography of Roman rural landscapes, the demographic crisis in Early Medieval Northern France, the demography of Halaesa and its surrounding area, the population of Soluntum in the 6th/5th century B.C., and the demography of the Carini Plain in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods.