Studies in Athenian Architecture, Sculpture, and Topography Presented to Homer A. Thompson

By (author) American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Book cover: Studies in Athenian Architecture, Sculpture, and Topography Presented to Homer A. Thompson

Extent: 203, 203 pages

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Subjects: Art & Art History, Classical Studies, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Hesperia Supplement

Series volume number: 20

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 1982)

ISBN: 9780876615201

8.46 x 10.98 inches

Price: $74.95

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Twenty-one papers on various aspects of Athenian art and society by the students and friends of Homer A. Thompson, a noted classical archaeologist and excavator of the Athenian Agora.


Twenty-one papers on various aspects of Athenian art and society by the students and friends of Homer A. Thompson, a noted classical archaeologist and excavator of the Athenian Agora. The volume includes many papers on sculpture (including Nancy Bookidis on Attic terracotta sculpture and Brunhilde Ridgway on the features of kouroi and korai in Archaic Athens), some on architecture (including William B. Dinsmoor Jr. on the Pinakotheke), and a few on topography (including Sara Immerwahr on “the earliest known grave in Athens” and Evelyn Smithson on evidence for a prehistoric Klepsydra).

  • By (author) American School of Classical Studies at Athens