History of Art: Ancient & Classical Art, BCE to c 500 CE

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care?Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Together he and Aristotle invented science. Alone he inv...

The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of inn...

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval ...

The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd cen...

Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary s...

Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan Classicism puts forward a fundamentally new und...

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born...

Winner, Association for Latin American Art-Arvey Foundation Book Award, 2022 More than a thousand years ago on the north coast of Peru, Indigenous ...

This volume addresses the question of the relation between sculpture and coinsor large statuary and miniature artin the private and public domain. ...

This volume addresses the question of the relation between sculpture and coinsor large statuary and miniature artin the private and public domain. ...

This volume addresses the question of the relation between sculpture and coinsor large statuary and miniature artin the private and public domain. ...

Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and...

A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART The new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scope A...