The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis

by Catherine M. Keesling

• ISBN13: 9780521815239
• ISBN10: 0521815231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Worshippers dedicated hundreds of statues to Athena on the Acropolis during the period between Solon's reforms and the end of the Peloponnesian War. This work brings together the evidence for statue dedications on the Acropolis in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., including inscribed statues bases that preserve information about the dedicators and the evidence for lost bronze sculptures. Catherine Keesling questions the standard interpretation of the korai as generic and anonymous votaries, while revealing more about the origins and significance of Greek portraiture.

Author Biography

Catherine Keesling is Associate Professor of Classics at Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

Part I. Anathemata: 1. Statues as gifts for the gods

2. Votive statue inscriptions

3. Nothing to do with democracy?: Votive statues and Athenian history

4. Votive statues and Athenian society

Part II. Divine Identities: 5. The identities of the Acropolis korai

6. The iconography of the Acropolis korai

Part III: 7. Fifth century portrait statues on the Acropolis

Conclusion

Appendices.