Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index.
Contents:
The art of citizenship / Ian Morris -- Aspects of Athenian grave cult in the age of Homer / Barbara Bohen -- Greek and Near Eastern art in the age of Homer / Sarah P. Morris -- Thiasos and Marzeaḥ : ancestor cult in the age of Homer / Jane B. Carter -- Cult in Iron Age Attica / Merle Langdon -- The archaeology of cult in geometric Greece : Ionian temples, altars, and dedications / Christopher G. Simon -- Oral tradition and Homeric art : the hymn to Demeter / John Miles Foley -- From picture to myth, from myth to picture : prolegomena to the invention of mythic representation in Greek art / Barry B. Powell -- The shield of Achilles : ends of the Iliad and beginnings of the polis / Gregory Nagy.
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