Greek Art in Context

Diana Rodríguez Pérez is the current Junior Research Fellow Mougins Museum in Classical Art and Material Culture at Wolfson College, Oxford, and was previously the Research Assistant for the Beazley Archive Pottery Database at the Classical Art Research Centre.

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Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introductory Notes: Contextualizing Context

Diana Rodríguez Pérez

Part One – Location and the Find-spot






Statues as Artifacts: Towards an Archaeology of Greek Sculpture
Sheila Dillon and Tim Shea




Itinerant Statues? The Portrait Landscape of the Athenian Agora
Elizabeth Baltes




New Perspectives in the Study of Pottery Assemblages from Settlements and their Cemeteries in Central Macedonia during the Archaic Period.
Eleni Manakidou

Part Two – Experiencing Material Culture




Seeing the Parthenon Frieze: Notes from Nashville
Rebecca Levitan and Bonna Wescoat




Lost in Translation? Theoretical Implications of Considering Iconography in Context
Winfred van de Put




Volitional Reconsumption: Repetitive Vase Scenes in a Psychophysiological Context
Katerina Volioti




Reviewing Space, Context and Meaning: The Eurymedon Vase Again
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Part Three – Historical and Artistic Contexts




Context of Contest: Athena, Poseidon and the Martyria in the West Pediment of the Parthenon
Marion Meyer




The Stoa of the Herms in Context: (Re)shaping Paradigms
Matteo Zaccarini




Not quite Pheidias. Status and Labour Specialisation in Athenian Sculpture
Helle Hochscheid




(Un)identifying Helen and Paris in Late Fifth Century BCA Athenian Vase Painting: How Context is Crucial
Samantha Masters and Alexander Andrason




Is there a Context Behind the Context? A Group of Apulian Red-Figure Vases in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Frank Hildebrandt

Part Four – Re-contextualization




Contexts of Use of Fourth Century Attic Pottery in the Iberian Peninsula
Carmen Sánchez Fernández




The Reception of an Attic Prize Vessel. On the Import and Local Production of Amphorae of Panathenaic Shape in Southern Italy.
Stine Schierup




Greek Images and Local Identities in Lycia: The Case of the Heroon from Trysa
Alice Landskron




Ancient Art in a Museum Context: The Kent Collection of Greek and Cypriot Pottery in Harrogate

Sally Waite

List of References

Index