Book Description
Trained in Italy, Greece, and the United States, the author has taught for over 35 years at Bryn Mawr College, and at other universities in the U.S. and abroad, receiving the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America for Distinguished Achievement. A pupil of Rhys Carpenter, she has devoted all her writing to Greek sculpture.
The articles in this volume were selected from over 95 studies she has published. In addition, her books have surveyed the entire span of Greek sculpture from the Archaic to the Late Hellenistic period. The articles are here presented in the chronological order in which they first appeared, to document Profesor Ridgway’s evolving views on the history of Greek sculpture. Preference has been given to those that were published in foreign journals and honorary volumes; two have been translated from the original Italian and one from French. Notes at the end of the book update all the studies.
Contents
The West Frieze of the Siphnian Treasury
The East Pediment of the Siphnian Treasury
Two Peplophoroi in the United States
The Man-and-Dog Stelai
A Story of Five Amazons
The Amazon’s Belt: an Addendum to a Story of Five Amazons
The Plataian Tripod and the Serpentine Column
The Peplos Kore, Akropolis 679
Of Kouroi and Korai, Attic Variety
Court Art and Hellenistic Art: The Role of Alexander the Great
The Gauls in Sculpture
The Fashion of the Elgin Kore
The Riace Bronzes: A Minority Viewpoint
Late Archaic Sculpture
The “Nike of Archermos” and her Attire
The Bronzes from the Porticello Wreck
Musings on the Muses
Defining the Issue: The Greek Period
Leto and the Children
Birds, “Meniskoi” and Head Attributes in Archaic Greece
Metal Attachments in Greek Marble Sculpture
Parthenon and Parthenos
Archaic Architectural Sculpture and Travel Myths
Greek Sculpture as Archaeological Evidence
Aristonautes’ Stele, Athens Nat. Mus. 738
The Porticello Bronzes Revisited
“Paene ad exemplum”: Polykleitos’ Other Works
The Severe Style: Updating the Issue
The Farnese Bull (Punishment of Dirke) from the Baths of Caracalla: how many prototypes?
A Goddess in Philadelphia
An Issue of Methodology: Anakreon, Perikles, Xanthippos
The Puschkin Stele from Taman
Some Personal Thoughts on the Knidia
The Laokoon in Hellenistic Sculpture
Additional Notes
Index
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