The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece

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The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece
This richly illustrated, color textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this book reviews the main objects and monuments of the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the context and function of these artefacts in their particular place and time. Students are led to a rich understanding of how objects were meant to be perceived, what “messages” they transmitted, and how the surrounding environment shaped their meaning. The book includes more than 500 illustrations (with over 400 in color), including specially commissioned photographs, maps, floorplans, and reconstructions. Judith Barringer examines a variety of media, including marble and bronze sculpture, public and domestic architecture, painted vases, coins, mosaics, terracotta figurines, reliefs, jewelry, armor, and wall paintings. Numerous text boxes, chapter summaries, and timelines, complemented by a detailed glossary, support student learning.
JUDITH M. BARRINGER is Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Her areas of specialization are Greek art and archaeology and Greek history, myth, and religion. Professor Barringer is the author of Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2008), The Hunt in Ancient Greece (2001), and Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1995), and co-editor (with Jeffrey M. Hurwit) of Periklean Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives (2005). She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the British Academy, among others. She was a Blegen Research Fellow at Vassar College and a Senior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna, and she currently holds a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Institut für Klassische Archäologie at the Freie Universität Berlin from the M4Human Programme of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Judith M. Barringer University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge.
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data
Barringer, Judith M., 1959– author.
The art and archaeology of ancient Greece / Judith M. Barringer.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-107-00123-7 (hardback)
1. Art, Greek. 2. Art, Mycenaean. 3. Greece – Antiquities. I. Title.
N5630.B27 2014
709.38–dc23
2014007608
ISBN 978-1-107-00123-7 Hardback
ISBN 978-0-521-17180-9 Paperback
Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
Contents
List of figures
List of boxes
Acknowledgments
Note on the text
Introduction
1 The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Greece
2 The Geometric period (c. 900–700 BC ) and the seventh century BC
3 The Archaic Mediterranean
4 The Classical period: the fifth century BC
5 The late Classical period and Alexander, c. 400–323 BC
6 The legacy of Alexander: the Hellenistic world
7 Roman conquest and the conquest of Rome
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture credits
Index
List of Figures
Front cover image: Munich, Glyptothek, detail of warrior from east pediment of the temple of Aphaia on Aigina, c. 470s B.C. marble. Photo: Hans R. Goette. Back cover images, left to right: Florence, Museo Archeologico 4209 (“François Vase”) from Chiusi, Attic black-figure volute krater signed by Kleitias and Ergotimos, c. 570 BC , terracotta; Pella, Museum, pebble mosaic of lion hunt from Pella, 4.90m × 3.20m; Didyma, temple of Apollo, east façade.
1.1 Bronze Age chronology
1.2 Chalandriani, Syros, general topography, looking west
1.3 Chalandriani, plan
1.4 Athens, National Museum p4974 from Chalandriani
1.5 Athens, National Museum p3908 from Keros
1.6 Athens, National Museum p3978 from Amorgos
1.7 Athens, National Museum p5762 from Melos
1.8 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 30.4.49, fresco in the tomb of Senenmout in Thebes
1.9 Herakleion Museum MA 3 from palace at Knossos

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