1. Introduction: themes and issues; 2. Figural mosaics in the House of the Abduction of Helen at Pella: three themes; 3. Master of lions (and other animals); 4. War as hunt; hunt as war?; 5. Rape as hunt; hunt as rape?; 6. Rape as war; war as rape?; 7. Abduction and femininity; 8. Hunt and masculinity; Epilogue: fixing the pose.
In this book, Ada Cohen focuses on art produced in Macedonia during the late Classical and early Hellenistic period.
Ada Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat and co-editor of Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy and Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography.
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