From Pergamon to Sperlonga - Sculpture and Context

"[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

List of contents

Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction, by Nancy T. de Grummond and Brunilde S. Ridgway
Culture as Policy: The Attalids of Pergamon, by Erich S. Gruen
Pergamo ara marmorea magna: On the Date, Reconstruction, and Functions of the Great Altar of Pergamon, by Andrew Stewart
Pergamon to Hierapolis: From Theatrical "Altar" to Religious Theater, by Mary C. Sturgeon
The Sperlonga Sculptures: The Current State of Research, by Brunilde S. Ridgway
The Phantom of a Rhodian School of Sculpture, by J. J. Pollitt
Odysseus at Sperlonga: Hellenistic Hero of Roman Heroic Foil? by H. Anne Weis
Pergamon and Sperlonga: A Historian's Reactions, by Peter Green
Ubiquitous Barbarians: Representations of the Gauls at Pergamon and Elsewhere, by John R. Marszal
Pergamene Influences on Etruscan Hellenistic Art, by Stephan Steingräber
Guals and Giants, Skylla and the Palladion: Some Responses, by Nancy T. de Grummond
Appendix: Literary Sources for Sperlonga
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

About the author

Nancy T. de Grummond is M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics at Florida State University and editor of An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology (1996), among other books. Brunilde S. Ridgway is Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author most recently of Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (ca. 600-100 b.c.e.) (California, 1999).

Summary

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 and the Cave at Sperlonga in Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy T. Ridgway De Grummond, Nancy Thomson Ridgway De Grummond, Nancy T Grummond
• Assisted by: Nancy T. de Grummond (Editor), Nancy Thomson De Grummond (Editor), Brunilde S. Ridgway (Editor), Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2001
• EAN: 9780520223271
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22327-1
• No. of pages: 339
• Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society; Hellenistic Culture and Societ; Hellenistic Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style, Ancient Roman style