The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents - Softcover

Pollitt, J. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521273668 ISBN 13: 9780521273664

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This book is a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (CUP, 1983). An authoritative and reliable sourcebook, The Art of Ancient Greece contains a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts. The material is presented in a way which makes this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology. Accompanying the author's translations of a wide selection of Greek and Latin texts is an accessible, substantial bibliography, as well as an introduction, and explanatory commentary.

About this title

Book Description:

Accompanying the author's translations of a wide selection of Greek and Latin texts is an accessible, substantial bibliography, as well as an introduction, and explanatory commentary.

From the Back Cover:

This book, a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art Of Rome: Sources And Documents, presents a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture, paintings, architecture, and the decorative arts. Its purpose is to make this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521273668
• ISBN 13: 9780521273664
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 316