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From Pergamon to Sperlonga
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Pages: 732
Authors: Nancy T. de Grummond
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-28 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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 Al
From Pergamon to Sperlonga
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Nancy T. de Grummond
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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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 accom
Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Carlos A. Picón
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-18 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Hellenistic period—the nearly three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 B.C., and the suicide of the Egyptian queen Kleopatra VII (
The Iliad in a Nutshell
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Michael Squire
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-06 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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A new, illustrated study of the Iliac tablets, a group of objects inscribed in miniature with epic episodes. Like the tablets themselves, Michael Squire tackles
The World Underfoot
Language: en
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Authors: Hallie M. Franks
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Drawing on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, the author presents an innovative new interpretation of pebble mosaic imagery as an active con