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Hellenistic Art and Architecture

Birds in Mosaics
by Antero Tammisto
A study of representations of birds in Hellenistic mosaics and in Campanian mosaics up to the Early Augustan period. The aim is to identify the birds and to evaluate their context and significance. The catalogue details 346 individual birds on some 70 mosaics. 524p, 79 b/w and col pls (Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae Vol 18, 1997)
Paperback. Price GB £110.00

Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture: Figural Motifs in Western Anatolia and the Aegean Islands
by Pamela A. Webb
Webb examines the full range of figural embellishment - from simple to complex, on large monuments as well as on obscure ones, and in major population centres as well as smaller cities, sanctuaries and isolated areas throughout the region. More than 130 illustrations of Hellenistic monuments - temples, altars, cult buildings, heroon, theatres, bouleteria, stoas, gymnasia and houses - and their sculptured adornment complement the author's ...
Hardback. Price GB £56.50

Hellenistic Palaces: Tradition and Renewal
by Inge Nielsen
This book analyses the evidence for the architectural form and function of the palaces of the Hellenistic period, including governor's and private palaces. Nielsen begins by examining the models on which Hellenisitc builders may have drawn, for example ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.50

Hesperia: Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Architectural Terracottas of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods, December 12-15, 1991
edited by Nancy A Winter
A collection of papers on architectural terracottas revealing aspects of ancient history and the classical world from mainland Greece, Northern Greece and Albania, the Black Sea, Aegean Islands and Asia Minor, South Italy and Sicily. 340p, 95 b/w pls (American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1994)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £90.00, Our Price GB £12.95

Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora
by Claireve Grandjouan
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £20.00, Our Price GB £4.95

Hellenistic Royal Portraits
by R R R Smith
Hellenistic portraits provided a visual presentation of royal ideology and expressed the basis of the king's power in a personal, godlike, charisma. This study examines their role, and how they were used as an important medium of exchange between kings ...
Hardback. Price GB £171.00

The Sculpture of the Sanctuary of Athena Polias at Priene
by Joseph Coleman Carter
Carter uses the notebooks of the original excavators to construct a detailed stury of the Hellenistic temples' sculpture, now largely preserved in the British Museum. He analyses the material and advances suggestions for the original position of the relief sculpture. Also contains a fully illustrated catalogue. 412p, 45 b/w plates (Society of Antiquaries 1983)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £48.00, Our Price GB £19.95

Hellenistic Sculpture II: ..c 200-100 BC
Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo
The worlds of Greece and Rome clashed in the 2nd century and both, notably the kings of Pergamon, tried to revive the great artistic achievements of 5th-century Athens. This volume, the second in Ridgway's planned trilogy on Hellenistic sculpture, ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.50

Hunters, Heroes, Kings: The Frieze of Tomb II at Vergina
by Hallie M. Franks
This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the Great. ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £45.00

From Pella to Gandhara: Hybridsation and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East
edited by Anna Kouremenos, Sujatha Chandrasekaran and Roberto Rossi
These papers present recent work on Hellenistic art, from Macedonia to northern India, with a particular focus on concepts of hybridisation and their contemporary usage. The evidence presented comes from a variety of sources: bullae, figurines, sculpture, ...
Paperback. Price GB £42.00