Art in Athens During the Peloponnesian War

Examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens.

List of contents

1. Athenian religion and the Peloponnesian War Michael A. Flower; 2. Archaism and the quest for immortality in Attic sculpture during the Peloponnesian War Olga Palagia; 3. The Eleusinian sanctuary during the Peloponnesian War Kevin Clinton; 4. Attic votive reliefs and the Peloponnesian War Carol L. Lawton; 5. War, plague, and politics in Athens in the 420s Lisa Kallet; 6. The north frieze of the temple of Athena Nike Peter Schultz; 7. Thucydides and the unheroic dead Brian Bosworth; 8. Images in the Athenian demosion sema Hans Rupprecht Goette; 9. Children in Athenian funerary art during the Peloponnesian War John H. Oakley; 10. Alcibiades: the politics of personal style H. A. Shapiro.

About the author

Olga Palagia is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Athens, Greece. A member of the committee for the restoration of the Acropolis monuments and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, among many other distinctions, she is editor, most recently, of Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Palagia, Olga (University of Athens Palagia
• Assisted by: Olga Palagia (Editor), Olga (University of Athens Palagia (Editor), Palagia Olga (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107656543
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65654-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology