Bibliographical Note

Onians, John

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Bibliographical Note

John Onians

Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome

Bibliographical Note

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John Onians

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Bibliographical Note

The most important sources for this book are the writings of Classical authors. Almost all are available in the Loeb Classical Library editions, which give both the original Greek or Latin texts and their English translations, the latter often providing the basis for the versions presented here. Additional early philosophical texts can be found in G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (Cambridge, 1962); Early Christian and Byzantine texts in J.P. Migne’s Patrologia Graeca and Patrologia Latina; Paul the Silentiary in C. Mango, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312–1453 (Englewood Cliffs, 1972); and inscriptions in Inscriptiones Graecae and the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.

The secondary literature on the Classical world is vast, and of great richness, with some of the best writing having been produced in the last decades. The following selection of some English texts includes both handbook surveys and more personal investigations.

CLASSICAL WORLD, GENERAL

Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray, eds, The Oxford History of the Classical World, Oxford, 1986.

CLASSICAL WORLD, BY PERIOD

Murray, Oswyn, Early Greece, second edition, Cambridge, Mass., 1993.

Osborne, Robin, Greece in the Making, 1200–479 BC, London, 1996.

Hornblower, S., The Greek World 479–323 BC, London, 1983.

Rostovtzeff, Michael, The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, 3 vols, Oxford, 1941.

Balsdon, J.P.V.D., Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome, London, 1969.

Millar, F., The Roman Empire and its Neighbours, London, 1981.

Brown, Peter, The Making of Late Antiquity, Cambridge, Mass., 1978.

CLASSICAL ART, GENERAL

Boardman, John, ed., The Oxford History of Classical Art, Oxford, 1993.

Boardman, John, The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity, Princeton, 1994.

Burford, A., Craftsmen in Greek and Roman Society, Ithaca, 1972.

GREEK ART, GENERAL

Pollitt, J.J., The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents, Cambridge, 1990.

Richter, Gisela, A Handbook of Greek Art, London, 1959.

Robertson, Martin, A History of Greek Art, Cambridge, 1975.

Sparkes, B.A., Greek Art (Greece and Rome: New Surveys in the Classics, 22), Oxford, 1991.

Spivey, Nigel, Greek Art, London, 1997.

GREEK ART, BY TOPIC

Boardman, John, Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical, New York, 1970.

Coulton, J.J., Greek Architects at Work, London, 1977.

Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery, London, 1972.

Dinsmoor, W.B., The Architecture of Ancient Greece, London and New York, 1950.

Lawrence, A.W. (revised by R.A. Tomlinson), Greek Architecture, New Haven and London, 1996.

Pollitt, J.J., The Ancient View of Greek Art: Criticism, History and Terminology, New Haven and London, 1974.

Richter, Gisela, The Portraits of the Greeks, London, 1965.

Stewart, Andrew, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration, New Haven and London, 1990.

Stewart, Andrew, Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece, Cambridge, 1997.

Spivey, Nigel, Understanding Greek Sculpture: Ancient Readings, Modern Meanings, London, 1996.

GREEK ART, BY PERIOD

Early Greece

Charbonneaux, Jean, R. Martin and F. Villard, Archaic Greek Art, 620–480 BC, London, 1971.

Hurwit, Jeffrey M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100–480 BC, Ithaca, 1985.

Richter, Gisela, Korai: Archaic Greek Maidens; A Study of the Kore Type in Greek Sculpture, London, 1968.

Richter, Gisela, Kouroi: A Study of the Development of the Greek Kouros from the Late Seventh to the Early Fifth Century, New York, 1942.

Classical Greece

Pollitt, J.J., Art and Experience in Classical Greece, Cambridge, 1972.

Robertson, Martin, The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens, Cambridge, 1992.

Webster, T.B.L., Art and Literature in Fourth Century Athens, London, 1956.

Hellenistic

Onians, John, Art in the Hellenistic Age: The Greek World View 350–50 BC, London, 1979.

Pollitt, J.J., Art in the Hellenistic Age, Cambridge, 1986.

Smith, R.R., Hellenistic Sculpture: A Handbook, London, 1991.

Stewart, Andrew, Faces of Power: Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics, Berkeley, 1993.

ROMAN ART, GENERAL

Andreae, Bernard, The Art of Rome, New York, 1977.

Brilliant, Richard, Roman Art from the Republic to Constantine, London, 1974.

Henig, Martin, ed., A Handbook of Roman Art: A Comprehensive Survey of All the Arts of the Roman World, Ithaca, 1983.

Pollitt, J.J., The Art of Rome, c.753 BC–AD 337: Sources and Documents, Englewood Cliffs, 1966.

Ramage, Nancy H., and Andrew Ramage, Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine, Englewood Cliffs, 1991.

Strong, Donald, Roman Art, New Haven and London, 1995.

ROMAN ART, BY TOPIC

Brilliant, Richard, Gesture and Rank in Roman Art: The Use of Gesture to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage, New Haven, 1963.

Brilliant, Richard, Visual Narratives: Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art, Ithaca, 1984.

Boethius, Axel (revised by Roger Ling and Tom Rasmussen), Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture, Harmondsworth, 1976.

Hannestad, Nils, Roman Art and Imperial Policy, Aarhus, 1986.

Kleiner, Diana, Roman Sculpture, New Haven and London, 1992.

Ling R., Roman Painting, Cambridge, 1991.

MacDonald, William, The Architecture of the Roman Empire, vols I and II, New Haven, 1965, and New Haven and London, 1986.

Vermeule, Cornelius, Roman Imperial Art in Greece and Asia Minor, Cambridge, 1968.

Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum, Princeton, 1994.

ROMAN ART, BY PERIOD

Republic and Early Empire

Bianchi Bandinelli, Ranuccio, Rome, the Centre of Power: Roman Art 500 BC–AD 200, New York, 1970.

Boatwright, M.T., Hadrian and the City of Rome, Princeton, 1987.

Favro, Diane, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome, New York, 1996.

Zanker, P., The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, Ann Arbor 1988.

Late Roman Empire

Bianchi Bandinelli, Ranuccio, Rome, the Late Empire: Roman Art AD 200–400, New York, 1971.

Elsner, Jas, Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of the Roman World from the Pagan World to Christianity, Cambridge, 1995.

L’Orange, Hans Peter, Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire, Princeton, 1965.

Among the author’s own works that anticipate or expand on ideas in this volume are:

‘Abstraction and Imagination in Late Antiquity’, Art History, 1980, pp. 1–24.

‘The Roots of the Normative Tradition in Greek Art, in Greek Trade and Greek Games’, in Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Athens, 1985, pp. 197–202.

Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Princeton, 1988.

‘War, Mathematics and Art in Classical Greece’, Journal of the History of the Human Sciences, Spring 1989, pp. 39–62.

‘Quintilian and the Idea of Roman Art’, in Architecture and Architectural Sculpture in the Roman Empire, ed. Martin Henig, Oxford, 1990, pp. 1–9.

‘Idea and Product: Potter and Philosopher in Classical Athens’, Design History, 1991, pp. 65–73.

‘Architecture, Metaphor and the Mind’, Architectural History, 1992, pp. 192–207.

‘Tabernacle and Temple and the Cosmos of the Jews’, Architecture and Traditional Systems of Belief. Proceedings of the Traditional Cosmology Society, London, 1992, pp. 133–49.

‘I wonder . . . A Short History of Amazement’, in Sight and Insight: Essays in the History of Art and Culture Presented to E.H. Gombrich at 85, London, 1994, pp. 11–33.

‘From the Double Crown to the Double Pediment’, in Alexandria and Alexandrianism, Malibu, 1996, pp. 127–39.

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