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Art, Myth and Ritual in Classical Greece

by Judith M. Barringer

That most of Greek sculpture has a mythological theme is immediately apparent. Yet viewed in the context of modern museums it is easy to forget the original contexts of the works, and that they were carefully chosen for their symbolic meaning. Here Judith Barringer provides case studies of some of the great monuments and complexes of the Ancient Greek World - the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the Athenian Akropolis, the Athenian Agora, Delphi, and the great tombs of Asia Minor - showing the layout of the monumental sculpture and how it was intended to be read. What emerges is that even different versions of the same myth could have different themes stressed to convey different meanings to the worshipper. 265p b/w illus (Cambridge UP 2008)

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