The votive statues of the Athenian Acropolis
By: Catherine M. Keesling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Athena (Greek deity) -- Art; Korai; Votive offerings -- Greece -- Athens; Inscriptions, Greek; Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Genres: Art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-267) and index
Table of contents: title: PART I: ANATHEMATA: Statues as gifts for the gods; title: Votive statue inscriptions; title: Nothing to do with democracy?  Votive statues and Athenian history; title: Votive statues and Athenian society; title: PART II: DIVINE IDENTITIES: The identities of the Acropolis korai; title: The iconography of the Acropolis Korai; title: PART III: Fifth-Century portrait statues on the Acropolis == Conclusion