Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC.
- An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical world
- Includes voices from such diverse fields as art history, classical studies, and archaeology and offers a diversity of views to the topic
- Features an innovative group of chapters dealing with the reception of Greek art from the Middle Ages to the present
- Includes chapters on Chronology and Topography, as well as Workshops and Technology
- Includes four major sections: Forms, Times and Places; Contacts and Colonies; Images and Meanings; Greek Art: Ancient to Antique
Trade Review“Overall, Tyler’s and Plantzos’s Companion to Greek Art offers a great many useful essays, which will, I am sure, be a regular point of reference for students and scholars in the field.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 27 February 2013)
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
List of Color Plates xxvii
List of Maps xxix
Notes on Contributors xxx
Preface xxxviii
PART I Introduction 1
1 The Greeks and their Art 3
Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos
PART II Forms, Times, and Places 15
2 Chronology and Topography 17
Nicki Waugh
3 Greek Decorated Pottery I: Athenian Vase-painting 39
Thomas Mannack
4 Greek Decorated Pottery II: Regions and Workshops 62
Stavros A Paspalas
5 Free-standing and Relief Sculpture 105
Dimitris Damaskos
6 Architecture in City and Sanctuary 132
Marina Yeroulanou
7 Architectural Sculpture 153
Olga Palagia
8 Wall- and Panel-painting 171
Dimitris Plantzos
9 Mosaics 186
Ruth Westgate
10 Luxury Arts 200
John Boardman and Claudia Wagner
11 Terracottas 221
Lucilla Burn
12 Coinages 235
François de Callataÿ
13 Workshops and Technology 255
Eleni Hasaki
14 Ancient Writers on Art 273
Kenneth Lapatin
PART III Contacts and Colonies 291
15 Egypt and North Africa 293
Sabine Weber
16 Cyprus and the Near East 312
Tamar Hodos
17 Asia Minor 330
Veli Köse
18 The Black Sea 350
Jan Bouzek
19 Sicily and South Italy 369
Clemente Marconi
PART IV Images and Meanings 397
20 Olympian Gods at Home and Abroad 399
H.A Shapiro
21 Politics and Society 414
Eleni Manakidou
22 Personification: Not Just a Symbolic Mode 440
Amy C Smith
23 The Non-Greek in Greek Art 456
Beth Cohen
24 Birth, Marriage, and Death 480
John H Oakley
25 Age, Gender, and Social Identity 498
Jenifer Neils
26 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 510
Timothy J McNiven
27 Drinking and Dining 525
Kathleen M Lynch
28 Competition, Festival, and Performance 543
Tyler Jo Smith
29 Figuring Religious Ritual 564
François Lissarrague
30 Agency in Greek Art 579
James Whitley
PART V Greek Art: Ancient to Antique 597
31 Greek Art through Roman Eyes 599
Michael Squire
32 Greek Art in Late Antiquity and Byzantium 621
Anthony Kaldellis
33 The Antique Legacy from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 633
Jill Johnson Deupi
34 Greek Art and the Grand Tour 649
Sue Blundell
35 Myth and the Ideal in 20th c Exhibitions of Classical Art 667
Delia Tzortzaki
36 The Cultural Property Debate 683
Stelios Lekakis
37 Greek Art at University, 19th–20th c 698
Stephen L Dyson
38 Surveying the Scholarship 711
Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Bibliography 723
Index 817
