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Greek Art

Poetry, Theory, Praxis. The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece: Essays in Honour of William J. Slater
edited by Eric Csapo and Margaret C Miller
A Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar, William J Slater, this volume looks at the social life of theories, artifacts, and poems in ancient Greece. The central focus of the collection is Greek theatre, but essays on such typically Slaterian subjects as ancient scholarship, lyric poetry, art, and inscriptions are also included. From a literary search for the elusive Pelasgians, an iconographic analysis of illustrations of Athenian ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £45.00, Our Price GB £10.00

Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II
edited by John H. Oakley and Olga Palagia
This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also the ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 25, The British Museum Fascicule 11: Greek Geometric Pottery
by J.N. Coldstream
The British Museum's holding of Greek Geometric pottery comprises 200 items, covering the period from the 10th to the 7th century BC. Most of these pieces have never been published before. The bulk of the collection - 123 pieces - is Attic, but eleven other regional styles are also represented. These include not only mainland Greek fabrics such as Argive, Boeotian, Corinthian and Laconian, but also the island fabrics of the Cyclades and Crete, as ...
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Greek art in view: Essays in honour of Brain Sparkes
edited by Simon Keay
This book celebrates the career of Brian Sparkes, whose work in Classical archaeology has covered many diverse areas such as art, pottery, and theatre. Such interdisciplinary work is at the core of this book, which seeks to explore the relationship between different kinds of text and material culture and the ways in which these can be interpreted. Chapters include studies on the relationship between vase painting and sculpture (Karim ...
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The Greeks Beyond the Aegean: From Marseilles to Bactria
edited by Vassos Karageorghis
There are some phenomena in the history of the world, which have left an everlasting impact on the development of civilization, beneficial or otherwise. Today, when we say the words democracy, philosophy, ideology, theatre, music, we recall one of the above phenomena, the Greek heritage of Europe and the whole world. In the realm of philosophical thought, science, literature, art and architecture the Greeks have left their mark. Greek heritage, ...
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The Lion of Knidos
by Ian Jenkins
Part of the BM's series of short guides showcasing their finest exhibits, Ian Jenkins here looks at the Lion of Knidos, an enormous marble sculpture, originally part of a funerary monument on the Ionian coast of Turkey. The text charts the process by which the lion came to Britain, and, using the evidence from recent excavations at Knidos, and comparison with other similar monuments, reconstructs the tomb which the lion would have topped. 62p ...
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Greek Offerings: Essays on Greek Art in honour of John Boardman
edited by Olga Palagia
This collection of papers on Greek art by pupils and friends is offered to John Boardman on his seventieth birthday. Many of the objects discussed here in his honour are published for the first time. Contents include: The Hesiodic myth of the five races and the tolerance of plurality in Greek mythology (Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood); A Minoan Ringstone from the Idaean Cave (Yannis Sakellarakis); A Mycenaean Sealstone from Gla ...
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Hellenistic Sculpture 3:Styles of Ca.100-31 BC
Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo
The third and final volume in this series on Greek sculpture begins c.100 BC and takes us through to the Battle of Actium in 31BC. Looking at both free-standing and relief sculpture, at small works, portraiture and the work of master sculptors, Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway presents a well-written and well-illustrated study of an important, transitionary period in Greek art. Discussing both individual examples, such as the Laokoon and the Belvedere ...
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Life and Works of Jane Ellen Harrison
Robinson, Annabel
In her day, Jane Ellen Harrison `was renowned for her public lectures on Greek art, for her books on Greek religion and mythology, for her unconventional and outspoken views'. Nowadays Harrison is still well known for her work on ancient Greek art and religion, and her involvement at the beginning of the 20th century in the anthropological search for `origins', but she is less well known for her place in the history of women. Harrison spent most ...
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Art and Archaeology of the Greek World
by Richard T. Neer
This beautifully produced book is a real tour de force, providing a comprehensive overview to the art of the Greek world in its entirety from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era. Richard Neer takes an archaeological as well as art-historical approach, emphasising the breadth and diversity of Greek art and material culture and embracing what might be seen as low as well as high art. The book is arranged in a clear chronological narrative, and ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00