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Images in Mind:
Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought
Deborah Tarn Steiner

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

List of Illustrations vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
CHAPTER ONE: Replacement and Replication 3
Replacing the Absent 5
Replication and Its Limits 19
Developments in Late Archaic and Classical Statuary 26
Works of Art in Fiftb-Century Texts 44
Late Classical Images and the Platonic Account 56
CHAPTER TWO: Inside and Out 79
Representing Divinity 80
Cult Activities 105
Vacant or Full? 120
CHAPTER THREE: The Quick and the Dead 135
Inanimate Images and the Dead 136
Divine Motion and Sight 156
CHAPTER FOUR: For Love of a Statue 185
Image Love in Literary Accounts 186
Real-World Viewing 207
CHAPTER FIVE: The Image in the Text 251
The Funerary Monument 252
Victory Statues 259
Honorific Statues and the Encomiastic Address 265
Imaging the Word 281
EPILOGUE: lucian's Retrospective 295
Illustrations 307
Bibliography 329
Index of Passages Cited 343
Subject Index 353

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