This volume brings together the work of leading scholars on two of the most important, yet puzzling, extant ensembles of Hellenistic Age sculpture: the Great Altar at Pergamon, with its Gigantomachy and scenes from the life of Telephos, and the Cave at Sperlonga in Italy, with its epic themes connected especially with the adventures of Odysseus. From Pergamon to Sperlonga has three aims: to update the scholarship on two important monuments of ancient art and architecture; to debate questions of iconography, authorship, and date; and to broaden the scope of discussion on these monuments beyond the boundaries of studies done in the past. In addition, the volume brings forward new ideas about how these two monuments are connected and discusses possible means by which stylistic influences were transmitted between them.
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"[The] contributors not only capture the extensive sweep and fascinating complexities of an international artistic style but also engage the reader in the accomplishment and sheer joy of collaborative discourse and scholarship." - Diana E. E. Kleiner, author of Roman Sculpture"
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"[The] contributors not only capture the extensive sweep and fascinating complexities of an international artistic style but also engage the reader in the accomplishment and sheer joy of collaborative discourse and scholarship."--Diana E. E. Kleiner, author of Roman Sculpture
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wineskin bearer, cave program, statuary dedications, urn reliefs, attachment traces, dying trumpeter, capping blocks, sculptural school, plaster reconstruction, bronze prototype, cave decoration, apsidal building, battle motifs, epic groups, helmet decoration, cornice blocks, heroic groups, victory dedications, terracotta frieze, architectural terracottas, snake legs, east frieze, statuary group, sculptural program, carving style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Great Altar, Telephos Frieze, Battle Monument, Nereid Monument, Athena Nikephoros, Langford Conference, Nike of Samothrake, Ludovisi Gaul, Brunilde Ridgway, Capitoline Gaul, Farnese Bull, Magna Mater, Peter Green, Trojan War, Athenian Akropolis, Greek East, Nancy de Grummond, Pergamon Gigantomachy, Sperlonga Skylla, British Museum, Ellen Rice, Gigantomachy Frieze, Gloria Merker, Granino Cecere New!
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The Attalids of Pergamon, a ruling dynasty of splendor and renown, mastered the art of cultivating an international image. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wineskin bearer, cave program, statuary dedications, urn reliefs, attachment traces, dying trumpeter, capping blocks, sculptural school, plaster reconstruction, bronze prototype, cave decoration, apsidal building, battle motifs, epic groups, helmet decoration, cornice blocks, heroic groups, victory dedications, terracotta frieze, architectural terracottas, snake legs, east frieze, statuary group, sculptural program, carving style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Great Altar, Telephos Frieze, Battle Monument, Nereid Monument, Athena Nikephoros, Langford Conference, Nike of Samothrake, Ludovisi Gaul, Brunilde Ridgway, Capitoline Gaul, Farnese Bull, Magna Mater, Peter Green, Trojan War, Athenian Akropolis, Greek East, Nancy de Grummond, Pergamon Gigantomachy, Sperlonga Skylla, British Museum, Ellen Rice, Gigantomachy Frieze, Gloria Merker, Granino Cecere New!
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- Hellenistic Sculpture (World of Art) by R. R. R. Smith in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Art in the Hellenistic Age by Jerome Jordan Pollitt in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Roman Copies of Greek Sculpture: The Problem of the Originals (Jerome Lectures) by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Attica: Studies in the Athenian Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age (Supplementary paper / Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies) by Andrew Stewart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) by Brunilde S. Ridgway in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue (Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation) by Zahra Newby in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Theocritus in Back Matter
- Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World by Zahra Newby in Back Matter
- Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood in Back Matter
- A Companion to the Roman Republic (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by Nathan Rosenstein in Back Matter
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