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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76031-7 - Greek Sculpture Nigel Spivey Table of Contents More information

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LIST OF FIGURES x PREFACE xix NOTE xxii

1 INTRODUCTION: THE STUDY OF GREEK SCULPTURE 1 Ancient writing about Greek sculpture 4 The modern tradition 6 The periods and styles of Greek sculpture: a glossary 7 Sources and further reading 13

2 THE GREEK REVOLUTION 17 Defining the Greek Revolution 20 Style and democracy 24 Narrative, truth and consequences 27 The cult of beauty 33 The logic of anthropomorphism 42 Conclusion: ‘Pygmalion’s power’ 50 Sources and further reading 51

3 DAEDALUS AND THE WINGS OF TECHNÊ 55 Daedalus: the invention of the arch-inventor 57 Technê: limestone and marble 64 Technê: bronze and terracotta 74 ‘The colours of white’ 81 Sources and further reading 83

4 ANATHÊMATA: GIFTS FOR THE GODS 87 The economics of idolatry and the archaeology of cult 89 Votive occasions and votive sculpture 95 Conclusion: Eusebeia and ‘Greekness’ 116 Sources and further reading 119

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5 HEROES APPARENT 123 Of the great and the good 124 ‘Say not that the good die’ 127 ‘Heroic nudity’ 133 The Tyrannicides 136 Heroes beyond the grave 139 Sources and further reading 148

6 TEMPLE STORIES 151 The Corfu pediment 153 Temples on the Archaic Akropolis 156 Metopes of the temple of Zeus at Olympia 160 The Parthenon frieze 165 The Bassae frieze 170 Sources and further reading 172

7 IN SEARCH OF PHEIDIAS 175 Pheidias: the legend 177 Rationalizing genius 182 Athena Parthenos and Olympic Zeus 188 Sources and further reading 192

8 REVEALING APHRODITE 195 Aphrodite’s genesis and Aphrodite’s cult 197 Knidos: the shock of the nude? 202 Aphrodite at large 209 Sources and further reading 213

9 ROYAL PATRONAGE 217 The Nereid monument 220 The Mausoleum at Halicarnassos 222 Ruler-cult and ‘propaganda’ 226 After Alexander 230 Pergamon: the Athens of the East 235

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From Pergamon to Rome 243 Sources and further reading 245

10 PORTRAITS AND PERSONIFICATIONS 249 ‘The mask of Socrates’ 250 Putting names to faces 254 Seven Athenian worthies 255 The physiognomic factor 257 Alexander –‘the Great’ 258 After Alexander 262 Personifications: a selective survey 265 Sources and further reading 271

11 GRAECIA CAPTA 277 The Verrine controversy 281 ‘Captive Greece made captive her wild conqueror’ 284 Sculptures in the horti 286 The Sperlonga sculptures 292 Hadrian’s Antinous 295 Coda: mutilated statues 296 Sources and further reading 297

12 AFTERLIFE 301 Byzantium and the Middle Ages 303 The Renaissance 306 Enlightenment and Romanticism 313 The rise of archaeology 317 Sources and further reading 321

INDEX 324 COLOUR PLATES FOUND BETWEEN PAGES 168 AND 169