Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-ix

List of Illustrations

pp x-xxx

Acknowledgments

pp xxxi-xxxi

Abbreviations

pp xxxii-xxxii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Making Meaning: How do Images Work?

pp 11-12

1 - Ways of Making Sense: Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art

pp 13-38

2 - Images and History in Eighth-and Seventh-Century BC Athens: A Discursive Analytical Approach

pp 39-56

3 - Knowledge and the Production of Meaning: Greek Vase Imagery Reconsidered

pp 57-70

4 - Images and Storytelling

pp 71-88

Part II - Interpretation and Perception

pp 89-90

5 - The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory

pp 91-106

6 - Parapictoriality

pp 107-124

Part III - Reflections of the City and its Craftsmen

pp 125-126

7 - Les Images de la Cité – The Vase Painter’s Gaze

pp 127-178

8 - Again: Working Scenes on Athenian Vases – Images between Social Values and Aesthetic Reality

pp 179-200

Part IV - Constructions of Myth Through Images

pp 201-202

9 - Of Gods and Giants: Myth and Images in the Making

pp 203-222

10 - The Fabric of Myth in Ancient Glyptic

pp 223-242

11 - Greek Coin Iconography in Context: Eight Specificities That Differentiate Them from Other Visual Media

pp 243-254

Part V - Clay and Stone: Material Matters

pp 255-256

12 - Paragone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek Painting and Sculpture

pp 257-279

13 - Communicating with the Divine in Marble and Clay

pp 280-309

14 - The Message is in the Medium: White-Ground Lekythoi and Stone Grave Markers in Classical Athens

pp 310-331

15 - Greek Archaic Figurative Terracottas: From Identification to Function

pp 332-345

16 - Images in Dialogue: Picturing Identities in Boiotian Stone, Clay, and Metal

pp 346-375

17 - Images of Drinking and Laughing: Vessels and Votives in the Theban Kabirion

pp 376-399

18 - Beyond Ceramics and Stone: The Iconography of the Precious

pp 400-418