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Ancient and Classical Art Selected Bibliography and Reference

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Books: Bibliography and reference - not assigned  

Barnet, Sylvan.  A Short Guide to Writing About Art,  6th ed., Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2000.

Boardman, John. Athenian Black Figure Vases, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1974.

_____________. Early Greek Vase Painting, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1998.

_____________. Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period, Oxford University Press, New York and Toronto, 1978.

_____________.  Greek Sculpture, The Classical Period,  Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1985.

_____________.  Greek Sculpture, The Late Classical Period, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1995.

_____________. The Greeks Overseas,  Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1999.

_____________. Persia and the West, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 2000.

Bowra, C.M.  On Greek Margins, Oxford University Press, London, 1970.

Burckhardt, Jacob.  The Greeks and Greek Civilization, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1998.

Carpenter, T.H.  Art and Myth in Ancient Greece, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1991.

Castriota, D., Myth, Ethos and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth Century Athens, 1992.

Christopolous, George A. (ed.) et al. History of the Hellenic World, Prehistory and Protohistory to 1100 BC, Athens, 1970.

Cook, J.M. The Greeks in Ionia and the East, Thames & Hudson, London, 1962.

Davidson, James.  Courtesans and Fishcakes, The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1997.

Doumas, Christos, The Wall Paintings of Thera, Athens 1992.

Dunbabin T.J. The Western Greeks: History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundations of Greek Colonies to 480BC.  

__________. The Greeks and Their Eastern Neighbors.  

Eco, Umberto. History of Beauty, Rizzoli International, New York, 2004.

Fisher, N. and H. Van Wees.  Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence, London, 1998.

Graf, Fritz.  Greek Mythology, An Introduction, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996.

Grant, Michael and John Hazel.  Who's Who in Classical Mythology, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London & New York,  2004.

Hanson, Victor Davis and John Heath, Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and The Recovery of Greek Wisdom, 2001.

Higgins, Reynold.  Minoan and Mycenaean Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1997.

Hurwit, Jeffrey M.  The Athenian Acropolis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.

Kampen, Natalie Boymel. Sexuality in Ancient Art, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York & Melbourne, 1996. 

Keuls, Eva C.  The Reign of the Phallus, Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens, University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1993.

Koda, Harold. Goddess: The Classical Mode, The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2003.

Korres, M., From Pentelicon to the Parthenon, 1993

Lawrence, A.W., Greek Architecture, 1973.

Morkot, Robert.  The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece,  Penguin Books Ltd., London & New York, 1996.

Neils, Jenifer.  The Parthenon Frieze, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.     

Osborne, Robin.  Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1998.

Palyvou, Clairy. Akrotiri Thera, An Architecture of Affluence 3500 Years Old, Philadelphia 2005.

Pollitt, J.J.  Art and Experience in Classical Greece, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987.

Preziosi, Donald and Louise A. Hitchcock.  Aegean Art and Architecture, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.

Richter, G.M.A. A Handbook of Greek Art, A Survey of the Visual Arts of Ancient Greece, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1996 reprinting.

____________. Animals in Greek Sculpture, A Survey, Oxford University Press, London, 1930.

____________. Archaic Greek Art Against its Historical Background, Oxford University Press, New York, 1949.

____________. Attic Red-Figured Vases, A Survey, Yale University Press, 1946.

____________. The Portraits of the Greeks, abridged and revised by R.R.R. Smith, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1984.

____________. Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 1912.

____________.The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1950.

____________. Three Critical Periods in Greek Sculpture, Oxford University Press, London, 1951.

Shipley, Graham. A History of Samos 800 - 188 BC, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987.

Strauss, Barry.  The Battle of Salamis, The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece – and Western Civilization, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004.

West, M.L., The East Face of Helicon, 1999.

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Articles:* Selections to be assigned

Agard, Walter R. "Notes on the Siphnian Treasury Frieze," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 42, No. 2 (April - June 1938), 237-244.

Albersmeier, Sabine. "Gift of South Italian Vases from the Marilyn and Herbert Scher Collection," Journal of the Walters Art Museum, No 60/61 (2002/2003).

Akurgal, Ekrem. "The Early Period and the Golden Age of Ionia," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Oct., 1962), 369-379.

Ammerman, Rebecca Miller. "The Naked Standing Goddess: A Group of Archaic Terracotta Figurines from Paestum," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 95, No. 2 (April 1991). 

Benson, Carol. "A Greek Statuette in Egyptian Dress," Journal of the Walters Art Museum 59 (2001).

Boardman, John. "Aspects of Colonization," Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No 322 (May 2001).

Bonfante, Larissa. "Nudity as a Costume in Classical Art," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Oct 1989), 543-570.

Bowersock, G.W. "Paint Your Agon," New Rep 231 No 7/8 (2004).

Bryce, Trevor R. "The Trojan War, Is There Truth Behind the Legend?" Near East Archaeology 65, No 3 (S 2003).

Clay, Jenny Strauss. "The Generation of Monsters in Hesiod," Classical Philology, Vol. 88, No. 2 (April 1993), 105-116.

Covington, Richard. "Mighty Macedonian, Alexander the Great." Smithsonian (Nov. 2004).

Dickinson, O.T.P.K. "Schliemann and the Shaftgraves," Greece and Rome, 2nd Series, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Oct 1976), 159-168.

Evans, James Allan. "The Parthenon Marbles-Past and Future," Contemporary Review 279, No 1629 (Oct 2001).

Farnell, L.R. "The Works of Pergamon and Their Influence," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 7, (1886), 251-274.

Fried, Michael. "Antiquity Now: Reading Winckelmann on Imitation," October, Vol. 37 (Summer 1986), 87-97.

Frothingham, A.L. "Medusa, Apollo and the Great Mother," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 15, No. 3 (July-Sep 1911). 

Gates, Charles. "Rethinking the Building History of Grave Circle A at Mycenae," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 89, No. 2 (April 1985), 263-274.

Gates, Jennifer E. "The Ethnicity Game: What Lies Behind Graeco-Persian?"  Ars Orientalis 32 (2002).

Graziadio, Giampaolo. "The Process of Social Stratification at Mycenae in the Shaft Grave Period: A Comparative Examination of the Evidence," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 95, No. 3 (July 1991), 403-440.

________________. "The Chronology of the Graves of Circle B at Mycenae: A New Hypothesis," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 92, No. 3 (July 1988), 343-372.

Gwynn, Aubrey. "The Character of Greek Colonisation," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol 38 (1918), 88-123.

Hallett, C.H. "The Origins of the Classical Style in Sculpture," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol 106 (1986), 71-84.

Hanfmann, George M.A. "Lydiaka," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 63, (1958), 65-88.

Hardwick, Lorna. "Ancient Amazons - Heroes, Outsiders or Women?" Greece & Rome, 2nd Series, Vol. 37, No. 1, (April 1990), 14-36.

Heilmeyer, Wolf-Dieter. "Ancient Workshops and Ancient 'Art'" Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 23, No. 4 (2004), 403-415.

Hicks, Ruth Ilsley. "Egyptian Elements in Greek Mythology," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 93, (1962), 90-108.

Hill, G.F. "Alexander the Great and the Persian Lion-Gryphon," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 43, Part 2 (1923), 156-161.

Hill, Dorothy Kent. "Ancient Metal Reliefs," Hesperia, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April - June 1943), 97-114.

Hoffmann, Herbert. "Antecedents of the Great Alter at Pergamon," The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Oct 1952), 1-5.

Hopkins, Clark. "Assyrian Elements in the Perseus-Gorgon Story," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 38,  No. 3 (July - Sept 1934), 341-358.

Howard, Seymour. "The Dying Gaul, Aigina Warriors and Pergamene Academicism," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 87, No. 4 (Oct 1983), 483-487.

______________. "Another Prototype for the Gigantomachy of Pergamon," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 68, No. 2 (April 1964), 129-136.

Hooker, J.T.  "Homer and Late Minoan Crete," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 89 (1969), 60-71.

Hurwit, Jeffrey M. "The Kritios Boy: Discovery, Reconstruction, and Date," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 93, No. 1 (Jan 1989), 41-80.

Jones, W.H.S. "Attitude of the Greeks Towards Animals," The Classical Review, Vol. 22, No. 7 (Nov 1908), 209-210.

Jones, W. LaBier. "The Parthenon of Pericles: Phidias' Structural Order to the Universe," Sculpture Review 49, No 4 (Winter 2000). 

Kawami, Trudy S. "Greek Art and Persian Taste: Some Animal Sculptures from Persepolis," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 90, No. 3 (July 1986), 259-267.

Konstan, David. "Women, Boys, and the Paradigm of Athenian Pederasty," Differences 13, No 2 (Summer 2002).

Kourou, Nota. "Limestone Statuettes of Cypriote Type Found in the Aegean," Bull Am Sch Orient Res, No 333 (Fall 2004).

Lehmann, Phyllis Williams. "The Setting of Hellenistic Temples," The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec 1954), 15-20.

Levin, Kim. "The Male Figure in Egyptian and Greek Sculpture of the Seventh and Sixth Centuries B.C." The American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Jan 1964), 13-28.

Lonsdale, Stephen H. "Attitudes Towards Animals in Greece," Greece & Rome, 2nd Series, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Oct 1979), 146-159.

Marler, Joan. "An Archaeomythological Investigation of the Gorgon," Revision Vol. 25, No 1 (Summer 2002).

McDonnell, Myles. "The Introduction of Athletic Nudity: Thucydides, Plato and the Vases," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 111 (1991), 182-193.

McEnroe, J.  "A Typology of a Minoan House," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 86 (1982), 3-19.

McHenry, Stewart. "Greece," Focus on Geography, Vol. 47, No 3 (Spring 2003).

Mousavi, Ali. "Persepolis in Retrospect: History of Discovery and Archeological Exploration at the Ruins of Ancient Parseh," Ars Orientalis 32 (2002).

Mylonas, George E. "The East Wing of the Palace of Mycenae," Hesperia, Vol. 35, No.4 (Oct - Dec 1966), 419-426.

_______________. "Homeric and Mycenaean Burial Customs," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Jan - March 1948), 56-81.

_______________. "The Cemeteries of Eleusis and Mycenae," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 99, No. 2 (April 15, 1955), 57-67.

Neils, Jenifer. "Reconfiguring the Gods on the Parthenon Frieze," Art Bulletin 81, No 1 (March 1999).

Padgett, J. Michael. "Objects of Desire: Greek Vases from the John B. Elliott Collection," Rec Art Mus Princeton University No. 61 (2002).

Paglia, Camille. "The Cruel Mirror: Body Type and Body Image as Reflected in Art," Art Doc 23, No 2 (Fall 2004).

Perrottet, Tony. "Let the Games Begin," Smithsonian 35, No 5 (August 2004).

Reynolds, Margaret. "The Sappho Companion," (Book Review) New Statesman 129, (May 2000).

Richter, Gisela M. A. "A Greek Silver Phiale in the Metropolitan Museum," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 45, No. 3 (July - Sept 1941), 363-389.

________________. "Was Roman Art of the First Centuries B.C. and A.D. Classicizing?" The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 48, No. 1/2 (1958), 10-15.

Roes, Anne. "The Represenation of the Chimaera," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 54, Part I (1934), 21-25.

Rubin, Norman A. "Glories of Ancient Greece," Ceramics, No 13 (2001).

_____________. "Ancient Cyprian Ceramic Art,"  Ceramics, No 12 (2001).

Schmitt, Marilyn Low. "Bellerophon and the Chimaera in Archaic Greek Art," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Oct 1966), 341-347.

Shear, Theodore Leslie. "The Horse of Sardis," The Art Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Mar., 1928), 215-230.

_________________. "The Lion Group at Sardis," The Art Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 2 (June 1931), 127-137.

Tatarkiewicz, W. "Classification of Arts in Antiquity," Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 24, No. 2 (April - June 1963), 231-240.

Vermeule, Cornelius. "Graeco-Roman Statues - Purpose and Setting I," The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 110, No. 787 (Oct 1968), 545-559.

_______________. "Greek, Etruscan, Roman Gold and Silver-I: Archaic to Hellenistic Gold," The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 813 (Dec 1970), 818-827.

Walston, Charles. "The Establishment of the Classical Type in Greek Art," The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 44, Part 2 (1924), 223-253.

Watrous, Livingston Vance. "The Sculptural Program of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 86, No. 2 (April 1982), 159-172.

Webster, T.B.L. "Ionia in the Sixth Century B.C." Greece and Rome, Vol 6, No 16 (Oct 1936).

White, Mary E. "Greek Colonization," Journal of Economic History, Vol 21, No 4 (Dec 1961) 443 - 454.  

Winter, Frederick E. "The Study of Greek Architecture," The American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 88, No. 2 (April 1984), 103-106.

Witcombe, Christopher L.C.E. Women in the Aegean, Minoan Snake Goddess (download in Word)

Younger, John G. "The Mycenae-Vapheio Lion Group," American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Summer 1978), 285-299.

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Internet:

The Battle of Salamis at www.indepthinfo.com/salamis

The Fate of the Parthenon sculptures in Athens by Ellis Tinios, ArtNewspaper.com

Why are the Parthenon Sculptures always in the news? British Museum Newsroom

Parthenon Marbles, the best home for the Parthenon Marbles. Richard Allen, Political Times, UK.

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