Greek Art and Archaeology 2nd Edition by Richard T. Neer, ISBN-13: 978-0500052099

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Greek Art and Archaeology 2nd Edition by Richard T. Neer, ISBN-13: 978-0500052099

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• Publisher: ‎ Thames & Hudson; Second edition (December 20, 2018)
• Language: ‎ English
• 408 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0500052093
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0500052099

Visually stunning, now with wider context.

This is the text that sets a new standard in its field with striking visuals, fascinating reconstructions, accessible prose, and coverage of the wider Greek world. The Second Edition of Greek Art and Archaeology extends student understanding of Greek art in history through richer archaeological context and expanded coverage of both the earliest Bronze Age and latest Hellenistic periods.

Table of Contents:

Front Matter

Title Page

Copyright

Brief Contents

Contents

Preface

The Plan of the Book

New in this Edition

Instructor Resources

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Some Basic Concepts

Chronological Overview

1. Crete and the Cyclades to the Late Bronze Age

Chronology and Background

Greeks and Pre-Greeks

Troy II

The Coming of the Greeks

The Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age

The Cycladic Cultures

Marble Figurines

Minoan Crete to the End of the Second Palace Period (LM IB)

Before the Palaces (EM I to MM IA)

Minoan Palaces

Palace Architecture

Palace Craft Production

Seal-Stones and Jewelry

Wall Painting

Iconographies of Power

Bull Games

The Cyclades in Late Cycladic I (LC I): Thera

The Problem of Chronology

Xeste 3

The West House

Summary

2. Greece and the Mycenaean World to c. 1100 BCE

The Coming of the Greeks

Early and Middle Helladic

Kolonna

Middle Helladic Burials

Middle Helladic Pottery

The Shaft Grave Era (Middle Helladic III–Late Helladic I)

The Shaft Graves at Mycenae

Contacts with Crete and the Near East

Pottery

Messenia and Tholos Tombs

The Mycenaeans on Crete

The Emergence of Palace Society (Late Helladic II–IIIA/ Late Minoan IB–IIIA)

Mainland Palaces

Mycenaean Burials: From Tholos Tombs to Chamber Tombs

The High Point (Late Helladic IIIB)

Mycenaean Citadels

Wall Painting

Mycenaean Seals

Pottery

Palace Economy

Palace Religion

A Mycenaean Kingdom?

A Trojan War?

Fall and Decline (LH IIIC)

The Collapse of the Palaces

The Sea Peoples

After the Collapse

Summary

3. Geometric Greece, c. 1100–c. 700 BCE

The Mycenaean Aftermath

Iron

Eastern Contacts

The Case of Lefkandi

The City State

Pottery: Style

Pottery and Society at Athens: Style in Context

Tending Tombs, Worshiping Heroes

Sanctuaries

The First Temples

Why Temples?

Interstate Shrines

Gifts to the Gods

Bronze Figurines

Tripods

Gifts, Writing, and Tradition

Literacy and Storytelling

The Alphabet

Stories in Art

Summary

4. The Protoarchaic Period, c. 710–c. 600 BCE

Hoplites

Migration and City Planning

The Greeks Overseas

City Planning

Indigenous Peoples

Metapontion and the Akhaian Model

Metal and Votives

Tripods and Cauldrons

From Cemetery to Sanctuary

Myth and Narrative

Creative Misunderstandings

Iconography

Pottery

Luxury and the East

Corinth

East Greece and the Islands

Attica

Inscriptions

The Dedalic Style

Sculpture

Technique

Statues as “Signs”

Cretan Beginnings

The First Korai

The First Kouroi

Conclusion: Monsters and Noble Bastards

Summary

5. Archaic Architecture, Coinage, and Luxuries, c. 600–c. 520 BCE

Temples: Form, Function, Technology

Egyptian Masonry

Terracotta Roof Tiles

The Politics of Building

The Orders: A Brief History

Doric

Syracuse

Thermon

Corfu

Athens

Selinous

Ionic

Naxos

Samos

Ephesos

Why Orders?

Coinage

Lydia and Electrum

Iconography and Function

Metalware

Pottery

Lakonian

Corinthian

Attic

Caeretan Hydriai

Summary

6. Early Archaic Sculpture, c. 600–c. 520 BCE

Materials, Formulae, and Style

Variations in Style

Sculpture in Context

The Ideology of Kouroi

Kouroi at the Ptoion

Kouroi in Attica

Kouroi as Individuals

Attic Korai

Relief: Attica and Elsewhere

Other Sculptural Types

“Draped Kouroi”

Seated Figures

Groups

Nikai

Terracotta

Large Terracottas

Small Terracottas

Bronze

Summary

7. Case Study: Olympia and Delphi, c. 900–c. 480 BCE

Panhellenic versus Regional Sanctuaries

Olympia

Altars, Temples, Stadiums

Treasuries

Small Finds

Sculpture

Delphi

The Oracle

Early History

Votives: Sculpture and Small Finds

Architecture and Architectural Sculpture

The Siphnian Treasury

The Alkmaionid Temple and the Athenian Treasury

Summary

8. Archaic into Classical, c. 520–c. 470 BCE

Freestanding Sculpture

The Question of Bronze

Bronzes Large and Small

Marble: Kouroi

Marble: Korai

Terracotta: Large and Small

Athens and the Early Democracy

City Planning

Money

Athenian Pottery

The Invention of Red-Figure

The Birth of Pictorial Space

The Pioneers, Portraits, and Democracy

Erotica

Greeks and Persians: A Love–Hate Relationship

Before 480

The World Crisis

After 480

Summary

9. Early Classical, c. 480–c. 440 BCE

Wall Painting

Architecture and Urbanism in Sicily

Temples

Town Planning

Architectural Sculpture

The Temple of Zeus at Olympia

Temple E at Selinous

The Ludovisi Throne

Freestanding Sculpture

The Delphi Charioteer

The Motya Youth

The Taras Goddess

Groups

The Artemision God

Argive Sculpture and the Riace Bronzes

Chryselephantine (Gold and Ivory)

Summary

10. Case Study: Cyrene and Paestum

Cyrene

Myths of Origin

Sanctuaries and Urban Space

Sculpture: Styles and Signs

Paestum

The Archaic Period

The Classical Period

Coda: The Romans

Summary

11. Case Study: Athens and the Akropolis, c. 480–c. 404 BCE

Athenian Democracy

Rebuilding the City

New Walls

The Agora

The Parthenon

The Propylaia

The Temple of Athena Polias (Erechtheum)

The Temple of Athena Nike

Summary

12. High Classical, c. 440–c. 400 BCE

The Art of Theater

The Art of Imitation: Painting and Pottery

The Art of Death: Graves and Memorials

Tomb Sculpture outside Athens

Burial and Society at Athens

Classical Athenian Grave Reliefs

The Art of War: State Commissions

The Peloponnesian War: Sculpture

The Peloponnesian War: Architecture

The Carthaginian War: Sieges and City Planning at Syracuse

The Carthaginian War: Sicilian Coinage

The Art of the Self: Portraiture

Satrapal Coins

Sculpted Portraits

Summary

13. Late Classical, c. 400–c. 323 BCE

Arts of Death and Drinking: Pottery, Metalware, and Mosaic

Pottery

Metalware

Mosaic

Architecture

Private Houses

Priene

Personal Religion and New Gods

Asklepios: A “New God” in Athens

The Arkhinos Relief and Personal Saviors

The Temple of Asklepios at Epidauros

The Great Masters

Praxiteles: Reimagining the Body

Lysippos

Trends in Freestanding Sculpture

Humanizing the Gods: The Piraeus Athena

Individuals and Types: The Olympia Boxer

What Is Greek? The Cyrene Prince

The Antikythera Youth

Other Sculpture (Non-Architectural)

Terracottas

Small Bronzes

Athenian Grave Reliefs

Dynasts: Tombs and the Iconography of Power

The Nereid Monument

The Mausoleum of Halikarnassos

Macedon and Alexander the Great

Summary

14. The Hellenistic World, c. 323–c. 100 BCE

Macedonian Tombs

Portraits: The Royals and the Rest

Cosmopolitanism

Religion: New Gods and Old

Personifications

Saviors

New Gods

Philosophy: The Care of the Self

Architecture and City Planning

Temples

Palaces

Civic Architecture

Painting and Mosaic

Sculpture

The “Museum Effect”

New Functions, New Bodies

Small Terracottas

Pergamon and Hellenistic Baroque

Coda

Summary

Glossary

Further Reading

Sources of Quotations

Sources of Illustrations

Index

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