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21 original essays on the art, architecture, history, culture, and influence of Athens during its most important period.

Table of Contents

• Note on Abbreviations
• Jerome Jordan Pollitt: A Bibliography
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Perikles as General (Donald Kagan)
• The Art of Classical and Periklean Athens
  • 2. Bail Oinochoai (John H. Oakley)
  • 3. A Farewell with Arms: Departing Warriors on Athenian Vases (Susan B. Matheson)
  • 4. The Girl in the Pithos: Hesiod's Elpis (Jenifer Neils)
  • 5. The Judgment of Helen in Athenian Art (H. A. Shapiro)
  • 6. Composition and Content on Classical Murals and Vases (John Boardman)
  • 7. The Painting Program in the Stoa Poikile (Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell)
  • 8. Feminizing the Barbarian and Barbarizing the Feminine: Amazons, Trojans, and Persians in the Stoa Poikile (David Castriota)
  • 9. Notes of the Subject of the Ilissos Temple Frieze (Randall L. B. McNeill)
  • 10. "Periklean" Cult Images and Their Media (Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway)
  • 11. Athena at Pallene and in the Agora of Athens (Evelyn B. Harrison)
• The Periklean Akropolis
  • 12. The Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Jeffrey M. Hurwit)
  • 13. The Parthenon Frieze and Perikles' Cavalry of a Thousand (Ian Jenkins)
  • 14. Alkamenes' Prokne and Itys in Context (Judith M. Barringer)
  • 15. Interpretations of Two Athenian Friezes: The Temple on the Ilissos and the Temple of Athena Nike (Olga Palagia)
• The Legacy of Periklean Athens
  • 16. Alpheos to the Orontes: An Unusual Echo of the Pheidian Zeus at the Syrian Port of Seleukia Pieria (Cornelius C. Vermeule III)
  • 17. Kosmetai, the Second Sophistic, and Portraiture in the Second Century (Eve D'Ambra)
  • 18. A Rhetorical Perikles (W. Martin Bloomer)
  • 19. On Some Motives Supposed Present in Self-Portraits in Pheidias and Others (Creighton Gilbert)
  • 20. Early Photography and the Reception of Classical Antiquity: The Case of the Temple of Athena Nike (Peter J. Holliday)
• The Legacy of Jerome J. Pollitt
  • 21. Greek Art and Culture since Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Elizabeth A. Meyer and J. E. Lendon)
• Works Cited
• About the Contributors
• Subject Index

About the Author

Judith M. Barringer is Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeffrey M. Hurwit is Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Oregon.

Reviews

" ... exceptional both in the concentration and high level of its scholarship... Barringer and Hurwit deserve a great deal of credit for having gathered together so many interesting papers, which are not only of a universally high standard, but are also very readable."--Minerva, May/June 2006