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<p>Preface</p> <p>CHAPTER 1 – Beginnings and Before: Greek Sculpture in the Iron Age (ca.1000-600)</p> <p>BOX - Uses of Sculpture in Ancient Greece</p> <p>CHAPTER 2 - The Search for Order: Sculptural Schemata and Regional Styles (ca. 600-550)</p> <p>BOX - Marble, the Monumental, and Egypt: Materials and Processes</p> <p>CHAPTER 3. Free-Standing Sculpture in the Later Sixth Century: Style and Penhellenism (ca. 550-500):</p> <p>BOX - Chronology and Herodotus</p> <p>CHAPTER 4. Sixth Century Architectural Sculpture</p> <p>BOX - The Greek Architectural Orders and Vitruvius</p> <p>CHAPTER 5. The Change to Classical: Democratic Athens and the Persian Conflict (ca. 500-460)</p> <p>BOX - Bronze Casting Techniques – “Copies and Originals”</p> <p>CHAPTER 6. The Temple of Zeus at Olympia: Panhellenism and the Early Classical (ca. 470-450)</p> <p>BOX - Literary Sources I – Pausanias</p> <p>CHAPTER 7. Classical Moment I: The Parthenon, Pericles, and the Power of Persuasion (ca. 450-430)</p> <p>BOX - The Parthenon Marbles and the Acropolis Museum</p> <p>CHAPTER 8. Classical Moment II: Sculptors and Statuary in the Mid-Fifth Century</p> <p>BOX - Literary Sources II – Ancient Art Histories</p> <p>CHAPTER 9. Unfinished Business: Pericles’ Programs and the Archidamian War (ca. 430-420)</p> <p>BOX - The Evidence of Inscriptions</p> <p>CHAPTER 10. An Attic Tragedy: The Fall of Athens and The Transition to Late Classical (ca. 420-390)</p> <p>BOX - Painting and Perceptualism</p> <p>CHAPTER 11. Idealism and Individuality I: Late Classical Architectural Sculpture</p> <p>(ca. 390-330)</p> <p>BOX - Itinerant Artists and Regional Schools</p> <p>CHAPTER 12. Idealism and Individuality II: Late Classical Statuary and Relief Sculpture (ca. 390-330)</p> <p>BOX - The Role of the Sculptor</p> <p>CHAPTER 13. Sculpture in Hellenistic Greece I: The Rise of Macedon and the Kingdoms of the Diadochs (ca. 330-200)</p> <p>BOX - The Nike of Samothrace and Hellenistic Chronology</p> <p>CHAPTER 14. Sculpture in Hellenistic Greece II: Greek Styles and Roman Taste (ca. 200-50)</p> <p>BOX - Ars revixit, Hellenistic Classicism, and Roman Patronage</p>

<b>Mark D. Fullerton</b> is Professor of History of Art and Classics at The Ohio State University. He is the author of <i>The Archaistic Style in Roman Statuary </i>(1990), <i>Greek Art</i> (2000), and co-editor of <i>Ancient Art and its Historiography </i>(2003).

<i>Greek Sculpture</i> presents a chronological overview of the myriad plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world, ranging from the emergence of monumental marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Roman conquerors throughout the first two centuries of the Christian era. With a primary focus on large-scale marble and bronze sculptural works that figured prominently in votive and funerary Greek religious practices, chapters explore the evolution of Greek sculpture over several centuries—which constituted a remarkable pattern of stylistic changes that markedly distinguished it from the works of contemporaneous Mediterranean civilizations. The evolution of Greek sculpture is also placed within broader social and historical contexts by exploring parallel developments in poetry, drama, philosophy, rhetoric, and works of art in other media. Concluding chapters also address the ways in which sculptural forms inherited from Classical Greece were adapted to the political and social transformations that took place in the century following Alexander’s conquests—and after Rome supplanted the Hellenistic kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean. Scholarly and thought-provoking, <i>Greek Sculpture</i> offers illuminating insights into one of the most recognizable and influential achievements in the history of art.

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