Table of Contents

Illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction, by Nancy T. de Grummond and Brunilde S. Ridgway Culture as Policy: The Attalids of Pergamon, by Erich S. Gruen Pergamo ara marmorea magna: On the Date, Reconstruction, and Functions of the Great Altar of Pergamon, by Andrew Stewart Pergamon to Hierapolis: From Theatrical "Altar" to Religious Theater, by Mary C. Sturgeon The Sperlonga Sculptures: The Current State of Research, by Brunilde S. Ridgway The Phantom of a Rhodian School of Sculpture, by J. J. Pollitt Odysseus at Sperlonga: Hellenistic Hero of Roman Heroic Foil? by H. Anne Weis Pergamon and Sperlonga: A Historian's Reactions, by Peter Green Ubiquitous Barbarians: Representations of the Gauls at Pergamon and Elsewhere, by John R. Marszal Pergamene Influences on Etruscan Hellenistic Art, by Stephan Steingraber Guals and Giants, Skylla and the Palladion: Some Responses, by Nancy T. de Grummond Appendix: Literary Sources for Sperlonga Bibliography Contributors Index

About the Author

Nancy T. de Grummond is M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics at Florida State University and editor of An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology (1996), among other books. Brunilde S. Ridgway is Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author most recently of Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (ca. 600-100 b.c.e.) (California, 1999).

Reviews

"[The] contributors not only capture the extensive sweep and fascinating complexities of an international artistic style but also engage the reader in the accomplishment and sheer joy of collaborative discourse and scholarship." - Diana E. E. Kleiner, author of Roman Sculpture"