Table of Contents

Contents: Part I. Perceiving Ancient Art: 1. Ancient Egyptian Art: Image and Response, Dorothea Arnold; 2. The Belvedere Apollo: On the Perception of an Ancient Work of Art after Antiquity, Annalis Leibundgut; 3."Silence et fureur": The Pythia in Berlin and in the Paris Opera, Michael Maass. Part II. Aegean Bronze Age: 4. The Larnakes from the Hagios Charalambos Ossuary, Philip P. Betancourt; 5. From Representational to Narrative Art in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades, Christos G. Doumas; 6. From Vase Painting to Wall Painting: The Lilies Jug from Akrotiri, Thera, Andreas G. Vlachopoulos; 7. The Crocus Gatherer's Costume Revisited, Bernice R. Jones; 8. Architectural Design, Bioclimate, and Palaces: The Loom, the Warp, and the Weft, Stella Chrysoulaki; 9. A New Reconstruction of the South House at Knossos, Jane F. Lloyd; 10. Cult Object-Image-Emblem: A Life-Sized Stone Bull's Head from the Juktas Peak Sanctuary, Alexandra Karetsou and Robert B. Koehl; 11. Animated Art of the Minoan Renaissance, J. Alexander MacGillivray; 12. Realities of Power: The Minoan Thalassocracy in Historical Perspective, Malcolm H. Wiener. Part III. Egyptian, Anatolian, and East Mediterranean Bronze Age: 13. Figural Representations from the Pre-Dynastic Cemetery at Naga El-Hai and the Origins of Egyptian Style, Rita Freed; 14. Kerma in Nubia, the Last Mystery: The Political and Social Dynamics of an Early Nilotic State, David O'Connor; 15. The Origins of the West Anatolian Early Bronze Age by Jak Yakar; 16. An Early Anatolian Ivory Chair: The Pratt Ivories in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Elizabeth Simpson; 17. A Plaster Encased Multiple Burial at Alalakh: Cist Tomb 3017, K. Aslihan Yener; 18. Red Lustrous Wheelmade and Coarse-Ware Spindle Bottles from Ashkelon, Celia J. Bergoffen; 19. Cypriot Bronzework and Images of Power, Joan Aruz, Appendix: Technical Note, Deborah Schorsch. Part IV. Iron Age Greece, Western Asia, and the Near East: 20. The Meaning of the Greek Cemetery from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, Anthony M. Snodgrass; 21."Old Country" Ethnonyms in "New Countries" of the "Sea Peoples" Diaspora, Itamar Singer+; 22. Phoenician Clay Figurines Recovered from the Sea in the Hecht Museum Collection, Ephraim Stern; 23. The Hasanlu Lovers, Oscar White Muscarella. Part V. Archaic and Classical Greece, Italy, and Western Asia: 24. Ships in Pre-Classical Asia Minor, Olaf Hockmann; 25. Apollo and Herakles at Naukratis in the Archaic Period, Ursula Hockmann; 26. The Career of Mnesikles; James McCredie; 27. The Classical Marble Pyxis and Dexilla's Dedication, Jasper Gaunt; 28. Helen's Birth: Iconography on a Calyx Krater from Acanthus, Katerina Romiopoulou; 29. Observations on"La Stanca," the Neo-Attic Weary Maenad, Beryl Barr-Sharrar; 30. Some Notes on the Metropolitan Museum's Pagenstecher Lekythos, Joan R. Mertens; 31. What Role for Etruscans? Larissa Bonfante; 32. The Genesis of the Etruscan Round Throne, Irma Wehgartner.

About the Author

PhD; Professor of Archaeology and Chair, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York.