Art & Architecture
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The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text [Paperback]
Jocelyn Penny Small (Author)
Regular Price: £25.99
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780521733069
Published by : Cambridge University Press
We are so used to seeing text accompanied by pictures that we perhaps inadvertently assume that this was always the case. However, with reference to art from archaic Greece to the late Roman Republic, Small argues that `artists illustrate stori... .... Learn More -
Art and Archaeology of Antiquity Volume III [Hardback]
C. C. Vermeule (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828609
Published by : Pindar Press
The third part of the four volume set which aims to make available the most important studies of Cornelius Vermeule, the formercurator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. This volume contains studies published between 1974 and 19... .... Learn More -
Carving as Craft: Palatine East and the Greco-Roman Bone and Ivory Carving Tradition [Hardback]
Archer St Clair (Author)
Regular Price: £78.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9780801872617
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
More than 1500 bone and ivory objects were recovered during excavations of the northeast slope of the Palatine Hill in Rome, providing an excellent opportunity to study this important industry. The assemblage consisted of a wide range of object... .... Learn More -
Art and Archaeology of Antiquity Volume IV [Hardback]
C. C. Vermeule (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828616
Published by : Pindar Press
The last part of the four-volume series which aims to make available the most important studies of Cornelius Vermuele the former curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. This volume spans the years between 1985 and 1995 and in... .... Learn More -
The Architecture of the Classical Temple of Hera [Hardback]
Christopher A. Pfaff (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780876618011
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: ARGIVE HERAION
Volume: I
This volume is the first in a series providing detailed and up-to-date analyses of excavations and fieldwork conducted over more than a century at the Argive Heraion, site of a succession of religious buildings high above the plain of Argos. The b... .... Learn More -
Poetry, Theory, Praxis: The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece. Essays in Honour of William J. Slater [Hardback]
Eric Csapo (Author); Margaret C. Miller (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781842171011
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 Sl... .... Learn More -
Archaic Korai [Hardback]
Katerina Karakasi (Author)
Regular Price: £105.00
Special Price: £29.95
ISBN: 9780892366996
Published by : Getty Trust Publications
What were the function and significance of the ancient Greek marble statues of maidens known as korai? Whom were they supposed to represent? The author addresses these questions on the basis of her exhaustive research.Between the seventh and fifth... .... Learn More -
JJP Supplement 2 (2003) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: Catalogue Des Inscriptions Greques Du Musee National De Varsovie [Hardback]
A. Lajtar (Editor); A. Twardecki (Author)
£50.50ISBN: 9788391825013
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 2
Catalogue of Greek inscriptions preserved in the National Museum in Warsaw, in French. This is the first full publication of the largest collection of Greek epigraphic material in Poland, comprising 125 texts, predominatly of Hellenistic and Ro... .... Learn More -
Images of Ancestors [Hardback]
Jakob Munk Hojte (Author)
£22.95ISBN: 9788772889481
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity)
To achieve status in the classical world, a certain intimacy with one's ancestors was essential. By referring to the illustrious exploits and qualities of his forebears, a man could strengthen his position in society. If his origins lacked suffici... .... Learn More -
Greek Vases in New Contexts: The Collecting and Trading of Greek Vases - An Aspect of the Modern Reception of Antiquity [Hardback]
Vinnie Norskov (Author)
£30.50ISBN: 9788772888866
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Greek vases have been among antiquity's most widely collected artefacts since the 18th century. This volume examines trends in the collection and trade of Greek vases in the years since World War II. Norskov combines a detailed historical narra... .... Learn More
