Proceedings of a conference held Nov. 9-10, 2002, in Athens, Greece. Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-287) and indexes.
Contents:
Philosophers and poets in the Sarapieion at Memphis / Marianne Bergmann. Praxiteles and fourth-century Athenian portraiture / Aileen Ajootian -- Attic grave reliefs and portrait sculpture in fourth-century Athens / Johannes Bergemann -- Naturalism and classicism : style and perception of early Hellenistic portraits / Ralf von den Hoff -- Portraits of women in the early Hellenistic period / Shelia Dillon -- Daochos monument at Delphi : the style and setting of a family portrait in historic dress / Wilfred Geominy -- Fashion and meaning : beardless portraits of artists and literati in the early Hellenistic period / Stefan Schmidt -- Emergence of ruler portraiture on early Hellenistic coins : the importance of being divine / John H. Kroll -- Alexander, Philitas, and the skeletos : Poseidippos and truth in early Hellenistic portraiture / Andrew Stewart -- Early Hellenistic portrait statues on the Athenian Acropolis : survival, reuse, transformation / Catherine M. Keesling -- Human achievement and divine favor : the religious context of early Hellenistic portraiture / Ralf Krumeich -- Space and the visualization of power in the Greek polis : the award of portrait statues in decrees from Athens / G. J. Oliver -- Leochares' Argead portraits in the Philippeion / Peter Schultz -- Berenike II in Athens / Olga Palagia -- Philosophers and poets in the Sarapieion at Memphis / Marianne Bergmann.
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