The eye expanded : life and the arts in Greco-Roman antiquity / edited by Frances B. Titchener and Richard F. Moorton.

Contributor Titchener, Frances B., 1954-

Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.

Descriptionxiii, 294 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.

Note:The ominous birth of Peisistratos / Frank J. Frost -- Antigone nodding, unbowed / Alan L. Boegehold -- Dionysus or Polemos? the double message of Aristophanes' Acharnians / Richard F. Moorton, Jr. -- Athenian democracy and the idea of stability / Alan Samuel -- Alexander at the Beas: fox in a lion's skin / Philip O. Spann -- A note on the "Alexander Mosaic" / Ernst Badian -- Mimesis in metal: the fate of Greek culture on Bactrian coins / Frank L. Holt -- Cleitarchus in Jerusalem: a note on the Book of Judith / Stanley M. Burstein -- The Hellenistic images of Joseph / Erich S. Gruen -- Egyptians and Greeks / Diana Delia -- Autobiography and the Hellenistic age / Frances B. Titchener -- The classical city reconsidered / Donald Engels -- Augustan classicism: the Greco-Roman synthesis / Karl Galinsky -- The founding mothers of Livy's Rome: the Sabine women and Lucretia / Elizabeth Vandiver -- Modern pagans in a classical landscape: Norman Douglas and D.H. Lawrence in Italy / Robert Eisner -- Macedonia redux / Eugene N. Borza.

Bibliography Note:"Select bibliography of works by Peter M. Green" (p. 267-271).

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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