
From Pergamon to Sperlonga
Sculpture and Context
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From Pergamon to Sperlonga
Sculpture and Context
About this book
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, with its Gigantomachy and scenes from the life of Telephos, and the Cave at Sperlonga in Italy, with its epic themes connected especially with the adventures of Odysseus. From Pergamon to Sperlonga has three aims: to update the scholarship on two important monuments of ancient art and architecture; to debate questions of iconography, authorship, and date; and to broaden the scope of discussion on these monuments beyond the boundaries of studies done in the past. In addition, the volume brings forward new ideas about how these two monuments are connected and discusses possible means by which stylistic influences were transmitted between them.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Introduction
- Culture as Policy
- Pergamo Ara Marmorea Magna
- Pergamon to Hierapolis
- The Sperlonga Sculptures
- The Phantom of a Rhodian School of Sculpture
- Odysseus at Sperlonga
- Pergamon and Sperlonga
- Ubiquitous Barbarians
- Pergamene Influences on Etruscan Hellenistic Art
- Gauls and Giants, Skylla and the Palladion
- APPENDIX: LITERARY SOURCES FOR SPERLONGA
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX