Divine Images and Human Imaginations in Ancient Greece and Rome

A June 2007 conference was held at the University of Efurt to explore iconographic, iconologic, contextual, and methodological questions associated with divine images in Greek and Roman antiquity. Archaeologists, art historians, and classicists responded, and 13 of their studies are gathered into a volume that displays the high quality readers have come to expect from Brill. Among the topics are goddesses and gods in Minoan and Mycenaean iconography, an approach to archaistic images in the fifth century BCE, the use of attributes in ancient Greek imagery, Arcadian cult images between religion and politics, images of Roman emperors in Greek temples, the dedication of cult statues at the altar as a Roman pictorial formula for introducing new cults, and Greek images of gods in the public spaces of Constantinople. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Joannis Mylonopoulos, Ph.D. (2001) in Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg, is Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. He has published extensively on the archaeology of Greek religion including ?e??p????s?? ????t????? ??se?d????. Heiligtumer und Kulte des Poseidon auf der Peloponnes (CIERGA, 2003) and Archaologie und Ritual (Phoibos, 2006).