Early Hellenistic Portraiture
Image, Style, Context

Table of Contents

Part I. Preface and Acknowledgments: Part II. Introduction:
1. Early Hellenistic portraiture Ralf von den Hoff and Peter Schultz
Part III. The Transformation of the Classical Legacy:
2. Praxiteles and fourth century Athenian portraiture Aileen Ajootian
3. Attic grave reliefs and portrait sculpture in fourth century Athens Johannes Bergemann
Part IV. Styles and Patterns of Representation:
4. Naturalism and classicism Ralf von den Hoff
5. Portraits of women in the early Hellenistic period Sheila Dillon
6. The Daochos monument at Delphi: the style and setting of a family portrait in historic dress Wilfred Geominy
7. Fashion and meaning: beardless portraits of artists and literati in the early Hellenistic period Stefan Schmidt
8. The emergence of ruler portraiture on early Hellenistic coins: the importance of being divine John H. Kroll
9. Alexander, Philitas, and the Skeletos: Poseidippos and truth in early Hellenistic portraiture Andrew Stewart
Part V. Patrons and Settings:
10. Early Hellenistic portrait statues on the Athenian acropolis: survival, reuse, transformation Catherine M. Keesling
11. Human achievement and divine favor: the religious context of early Hellenistic portraiture Ralf Krumeich
12. Space and visualization of power in the Greek polis: the award of portrait statues in decrees from Athens G. J. Oliver
13. Leochares' Argead portraits in the Philippeion Peter Schultz
Part VI. Out of Athens: Egypt and the Spread of Hellenistic Styles:
14. Berenice II in Athens Olga Palagia
15. The philosophers of poets in the Sarapieion at Memphis Marianne Bergmann.

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