THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES

Few monuments have fascinated people as much as the Parthenon. Two and a half millennia after its construction this monument continues to generate important research across a wide range of fields, from classics and art history to archaeology and the physical sciences. This book, which grew out of a conference held at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, presents the latest developments in Parthenon research by an international cast of scholars and scientists. It offers new interpretations of some of the most crucial issues, ranging from the authorship of the frieze to the reconstruction of its missing sculpture, as well as the sociopolitical context in which the monument was created and the application of new technologies in Parthenon studies. Showcasing the most up-to-date research on the Parthenon, this book not only presents the current state of Parthenon studies but also marks the future direction of scholarship.

Michael B. Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government–Karakas Foundation Chair of Greek Studies and Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. An archaeologist of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period, he has authored and edited eleven books, including The Rural History of the Greek City-States and Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Greek Secret Cults.

THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURES

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CONTENTS

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ON ABBREVIATIONS AND TRANSLITERATION

Abbreviations of periodicals and series are those listed in the American Journal of Archaeology (www.ajaonline.org./shared/s_info_contrib_7.html). In the chapters, each author’s English spelling of Greek names is preserved, but in the index Greek instead of the Latinized versions of Greek names are used (e.g., Erechtheion instead of Erechtheum, Pentelikon instead of Pentelicum, etc.).

CONTRIBUTORS

Dr. Michael B. Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Foundation Chair of Greek Studies and Professor of Archaeology, with the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri–St. Louis. He is a classical archaeologist with extensive field experience. His most recent books include The Rural History of Ancient Greek City-States (BAR 1001, Oxford 2001) and The Archaeology and Ritual of Greek Secret Cults (edited, Routledge 2003).

Georgios Mostratos is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Athens.

Dr. Jenifer Neils is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University. She has written extensively on Athenian iconography and the Panathenaic festival. Her most recent book, The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge University Press 2001), examines all aspects of this major sculpture, from its initial design to its impact on later art.

Dr. Robert Picken is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, The City University of New York. He is currently working on intellectual contacts between France and China at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries.

Dr. Scott Pike is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Sciences Program at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He is coeditor of The Practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology (Wiener Laboratory Publication Number 3, Archetype Publications Ltd. 2000).

Dr. Noel Robertson is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Brock University and the author of many studies of Greek history and religion, including The Formation of Greek Cities in the Light of Public Ritual (University of Toronto Press 1992).

Dr. Katherine A. Schwab is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Plaster Cast Collection at Fairfield University in Connecticut. Her essay on the entire metopes series, “Metopes: A Celebration of Victory,” will appear in The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present, ed. J. Neils (Cambridge University Press 2004).

William St. Clair is Senior Reseach Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, the author of Lord Elgin and the Marbles (3rd revised edition, 1998) and of The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press 2004).

Dr. Sarantis Symeonoglou is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the director of the Ithaca Project and has authored The Topography of Thebes (Princeton University Press 1985).

Dr. John G. Younger is Professor of Classics and of Humanities and Western Civilization at the University of Kansas. He is currently working on two books for 2004–5: Sexuality in Classical Antiquity (Routledge) and A Social History of Greek Art (Blackwells).

THE PARTHENON
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