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Book SynopsisIn archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues.
Trade Review"[A] comprehensive, richly documented study... Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing... Informative and satisfying."--Choice "Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning... Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work."--Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xv List of Abbreviations xvii CHAPTER ONE: Replacement and Replication 3 Replacing the Absent 5 Replication and Its Limits 19 Developments in Late Archaic and Classical Statuary 26 Works of Art in Fiftb-Century Texts 44 Late Classical Images and the Platonic Account 56 CHAPTER TWO: Inside and Out 79 Representing Divinity 80 Cult Activities 105 Vacant or Full? 120 CHAPTER THREE: The Quick and the Dead 135 Inanimate Images and the Dead 136 Divine Motion and Sight 156 CHAPTER FOUR: For Love of a Statue 185 Image Love in Literary Accounts 186 Real-World Viewing 207 CHAPTER FIVE: The Image in the Text 251 The Funerary Monument 252 Victory Statues 259 Honorific Statues and the Encomiastic Address 265 Imaging the Word 281 EPILOGUE: lucian's Retrospective 295 Illustrations 307 Bibliography 329 Index of Passages Cited 343 Subject Index 353
