Plantzos’ text, in contrast, offers a good balance between monuments and narrative; that is, the number of monuments is manageable and the discussions include, to a certain degree, stylistic and cultural information. Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, Trinity ISE or PTE, in which case it must be no more than two years old. Professor Barringer is the author of Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2008); The Hunt in Ancient Greece (2001); and Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1995) and co-editor (with Jeffrey M.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.In “The Age of Augustus, 31 BCE-14 CE” (5), for example, he examines well known monuments, including the Via Labicana and Prima Porta portraits of the emperor, as well as the imperial building program in Rome, in particular structures in the Campus Martius and on the Palatine. Much that has structured the previous treatment—for example, the sequencing of styles in art or the polis-based environment in which works were created and received—give way in the Hellenistic era to far more heterogeneous phenomena. The extensive excavations required to build the new Athens Metro have unearthed archaeological finds of staggering importance.

Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell, Steven Tuck, and Dimitris Plantzos deserve credit for providing respectable choices to instructors who want to provide their undergraduate students with a comprehensive view of Greek or Roman art and architecture in a one-semester course. One of the most important monuments of human civilisation and the new architectural jewel of Athens are both presented through informative, easy to read texts in a fully illustrated edition with colour representations and detailed site plans.demonstrate an ability to organise their own learning, manage their workload, and work to a timetable. It has been said that all western art and science is but a footnote to ancient Greek accomplishments. Students are introduced to the different perspectives and methods of both archaeologists and art historians in interpreting material remains and visual images. A comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world—Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman—from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE.

Each chapter also contains three large textboxes entitled: ‘A View from the Provinces’, ‘Scholarly Perspective’, and ‘Art and Literature. If you live in the UK, you may be able to apply for a postgraduate loan from one of the UK’s governments.While this seems to hold for grave-markers, amphorae were often used for male cremation burials, especially in EG. There is no lack of good introductions to the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, but Barringer's new book - clearly written and presented, incorporating the latest scholarship, and superbly illustrated (many images are new, unusual and uncommonly instructive in themselves) - will occupy the first rank. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the chapter’s contents and a list of suggestions for further reading.