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Terra Marique: Studies in honor of Anna Marguerite McCann on the receipt of the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America
edited by John Pollini
In 1998 Anna Marguerite McCann received the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America for her distinguished archaeological achievements. This volume includes the papers presented at a special colloquium held in her honour, along with essays by other colleagues and friends. The volume is divided into two thematic parts: the first reflects Anna McCann's general interests in ancient art and archaeology, especially Greek and Roman ...
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The Castellani Fragments in the Villa Giulia, Volume 2: Atheian Black Figure
by Helene Blinkenberg Hastrup
The vast Castellani collection of ancient Greek pottery, now housed in the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome, has been studied by several scholars, notable Paolo Mingazzini, who published part of the collection. A great deal, however, particularly the fragments, remains unpublished. The aim of this volume is to make this important collection of Athenian Black Figure fragments available to all students of Greek pottery. Each piece is illustrated and ...
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Sailing to Classical Greece: Papers on Greek Art, Archaeology and Epigraphy presented to Petros Themelis
edited by Olga Palagia and Hans Rupprecht Goette
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 New, previously unpublished material from Messenia, ...
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Original und Kopie: Formen und Konzepte der Nachahmung in der antiken Kunst
edited by Klaus Junker and Adrian Stähli
The contributions to this volume examine the phenomenon of copying in antiquity within a context that spans all periods and types of monuments. The methodology of differentiating between original and copy, as it was devised for research on Greek sculpture, is applied here to architecture, painting and epigraphy. Thus, the fifteen essays attempt to break with the traditional concept of differentiating between a (Greek) culture of originals and a ...
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Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
edited by D L Cairns
A distinguished international cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the construction of facial expression in Greek and Roman epic; the significance of gesture and body language in the visual meaning of ancient ...
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The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods (Corinth XVIII,iv)
by Gloria Merker
About 24,000 figurines and fragments have been found on Acrocorinth, and this study greatly increases our understanding of the way in which this artform developed over the centuries. The figures depicted also reveal new evidence about the deities and heroes recognized at the sanctuary, the age and gender of the participants in the rituls, the offerings they brought, and the nature of their cultic activities.200p (American School of Classical ...
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The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the Archaic and Classical Periods
by Angeliki Kosmopoulou
The provision of bases on which to stand statues only became the norm after the mid-7th century BC. This innovative move differentiated Greek archaic statues from their counterparts in other areas such as Egypt and Mesopotamia. This book comprises an important and comrehensive corpus of sculpted statue bases with figured decoration dating from the mid-7th to the end of the 4th century BC. The preliminary discussion examines the appearance and ...
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The Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Craftsmanship and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture
by John R. Senseney
Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney focuses on technical drawing in the building trade as a model for the expression of visual order, showing that the techniques of ancient Greek drawing actively determined concepts about the world. He argues that the uniquely Greek innovations of graphic construction determined principles that shaped the massing, special ...
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The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions
edited by Larissa Bonfante
The Barbarians of Ancient Europe deals with the reality of the indigenous peoples of Europe, in contrast to many publications that explore these peoples in the context of the Greek idea of 'barbarians' as the 'other'. These varied groups - Thracians, Scythians, Celts, Germans, Etruscans, and other peoples of Italy, the Alps, and beyond - had contact with one another and with Greek culture during its flowering. Images on the spectacular gold and ...
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Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion
by Verity Platt
This book explores divine manifestations and their representations both in art and in literary, historical and epigraphic accounts. The cultural analysis of epiphany is set within a historical framework that examines its development from the archaic period to the Roman Empire. Verity Platt argues that the enduring potential for divine incursions into mortal experience provides a reliable cognitive structure that supports both ancient religion and ...
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