The Art of Ancient Greece

This book is a companion volume to Professor Pollitt''s The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (CUP 1983). An authoritative and reliable sourcebook The Art of Ancient Greece contains a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture painting architecture and the decorative arts. The material is presented in a way which makes this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology. Accompanying the author''s translations of a wide selection of Greek and Latin texts is an accessible substantial bibliography as well as an introduction and explanatory commentary.