Roman Sculpture
From Augustus to Constantine

In this 1907 work, Strong argues for the aesthetic importance of Roman sculpture, usually considered as inferior to Greek.

Eugénie Strong (Author)

9781108078108, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 March 2015

648 pages, 130 b/w illus.
24.7 x 14 x 4 cm, 0.83 kg

Eugénie Strong (née Sellers, 1860–1943) studied classics at Girton College, Cambridge, and then classical archaeology in London. Her translations of Schuchardt's account of Schliemann's excavations at Troy, and of Fürtwangler's Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture, are also reissued in this series. Among other distinctions, she was the first female student of the British School at Athens, and in 1909 (partly as a result of the 1907 publication of this book) was appointed assistant director of the British School at Rome. Roman sculpture had consistently been regarded as the 'poor relation' of what was seen as the superior art of Greece, but in this highly illustrated work, covering the period from Augustus to Constantine, Strong argues both for its particular aesthetic qualities and also for its importance as occupying a special place 'at the psychological moment when the Antique passes from the service of the Pagan State into that of Christianity'.

Preface
Chronological table
Introduction
1. The Augustan age
2. Augustan decoration
3. Augustus to Nero
4. The Flavian age
5. Flavian relief
6. The principate of Trajan
7. The column of Trajan
8. The Trajan column (cont.)
9. The principate of Trajan (cont.)
10. Principate of Hadrian
11. Hadrianic sarcophagi
12. The Antonine period
13. Severus to Diocletian
14. The principate of Constantine
15. Roman portraiture from Augustus to Constantine
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]