These works may prove useful for research, or providing further explanations for items discussed in class. Most have detailed bibliographies; further references can also be found in their footnotes. The divisions are arbitrary; many works will be relevant for a variety of topics. With few exceptions, all these works are available in the University's library system.
Biers, W. 1992 Art, Artefacts, and Chronology in Classical Archaeology. London.
Boardman, J. (ed.) 1994 The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity. Princeton.
-----. 1993 The Oxford History of Classical Art. Oxford.
-----. 1987 Greek Art. Third edition. London.
Boardman, J., Dorig, J. and W. Fuchs. 1967 The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece. London.
Boardman, J. et al. (eds.) 1986 The Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford.
Charbonneaux, J. et al. 1973 Hellenistic Art. London.
-----. 1972 Classical Greek Art. London.
-----. 1971 Archaic Greek Art. London.
Hampe, R., E. Simon. 1980 The Birth of Greek Art. London.
Havelock, C. 1981 Hellenistic Art. London.
History of the Hellenic World II: The Archaic Period. Athens 1975.
Johns, C. 1982 Sex or Symbol. Erotic Images of Greece and Rome. Austin.
Kampen, N.B. et al. (eds.) 1996 Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy. Cambridge.
Moon, W. (ed.) 1983 Ancient Greek Art and Iconography. Madison.
Osborne, R. 1998 Archaic and Classical Greek Art. Oxford.
Pedley, J.G. 1998 Greek Art and Archaeology. 2nd edition. Upper Saddle River.
Pollit, J.J. 1990 The Art of Greece: Sources and Documents. Cambridge.
-----. 1986 Art in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge.
Reeder, E.D. (ed.) 1995 Pandora. Women in Classical Greece. Baltimore.
Richter, G.M.A. 1994 A Handbook of Greek Art. Ninth edition. London.
Robertson, M. 1981 A Shorter History of Greek Art. Cambridge.
-----. 1975 History of Greek Art. 2 vols. Cambridge.
Sparkes, B. 1991 Greek Art. Oxford.
Stewart, A. 1997 Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece. Cambridge.
Woodford, S. 1986 An Introduction to Greek Art. Ithaca.
ii) Neolithic period, Minoans & Mycenaeans
Cadogan, G. 1976 Palaces of Minoan Crete. London. (M, W)
Dickinson, O. 1994 The Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge.
Doumas, C. 1983 Thera. Pompeii of the Ancient Aegean. London. (M, W)
Graham, J.W. 1987 The Palaces of Crete. Revised edition. Princeton. (M, W)
Higgins, R. 1981 Minoan and Mycenaean Art. Second edition. New York.
-----. 1973 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete. London.
History of the Hellenic World I: Prehistory and Protohistory. Athens 1970.
Hood, S. 1978 The Arts in Prehistoric Greece. Harmondsworth.
Marinatos, N. 1984 Art and Religion in Thera. Athens.
McDonald, W.A., C.G. Thomas 1990 Progress into the Past: The Rediscovery of Mycenaean Civilization.
Second edition. Bloomington.
Morgan, L. 1988 Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera. Cambridge. (M, W)
Mylonas, G. 1966 Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. Princeton. (---, W)
Persson, A. 1931 Royal Tombs at Dendra near Midea. Lund. (M, ---)
Taylour, W. 1983 The Mycenaeans. London.
Thera and the Aegean World I-III. London 1978-90. (M (II, III), W (II))
Vermeule, E. 1972 Greece in the Bronze Age. Chicago. (M, W)
Wace, A.J.B. 1946 Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide. Princeton. (M, ---)
iii) Dark Ages, Geometric and Orientalising periods
Ahlberg-Cornell, G. 1992 Myth and Epos in Early Greek Art: Representation and Interpretation. Jonsered.
Boardman, J. 1973 The Greeks Overseas. Second edition. London.
Carter, J.B., S.P. Morris (eds.) 1995 The Ages of Homer. Austin.
Coldstream, J.N. 1977 Geometric Greece. New York.
Hurwit, J. 1985 The Art and Culture of Early Greece. 1100-480 B.C. Ithaca.
Langdon, S. (ed.) 1993 From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer. Columbia.
Morris, S. 1992 Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art. Princeton.
Schweitzer, B. 1971 Greek Geometric Art. London.
Snodgrass, A.M. 2000 The Dark Age of Greece. Rpt. of 1971 Edinburgh edition. New York.
-----. 1998 Homer and the Artists. Text and picture in early Greek art. Cambridge.
-----. 1980 Archaic Greece: The Age of Experiment. London.
iv) Architecture
Coulton, J.J. 1977 Ancient Greek Architects at Work. Ithaca.
Dinsmoor, W.B. 1975 Architecture of Ancient Greece. Third edition, revised. New York.
Graham, J.W. 1966 'Origins and interrelations of the Greek house and the Roman house.' Phoenix 20:
3-31.
Hopper, R.J. 1971 The Acropolis. London.
Lawrence, A.W. 1983 Greek Architecture. 4th edition. Harmondsworth.
Nevett, L.C. 1999 House and Society in the Ancient Greek World. Cambridge.
Nielsen, I. 1994 Hellenistic Palaces. Aarhus.
Robertson, D.S. 1969 Greek and Roman Architecture. Second edition. Cambridge.
Tomlinson, R.A. 1995 Greek and Roman Architecture. London.
-----. 1976 Greek Sanctuaries. London.
Wycherley, R.E. 1962 How the Greeks Built Cities. Second edition. New York.
Yegül, F. 1992 Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge, Mass.
v) Sculpture
Ashmole, B. 1972 Architect and Sculptor in Classical Greece. New York.
Beazley, J.D., B. Ashmole 1966 Greek Sculpture and Painting. Second edition. Cambridge.
Bieber, M. 1961 The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age. Revised edition. New York.
Boardman, J. 1986 Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period. London.
-----. 1985 The Parthenon and its Sculptures. London.
-----. 1978 Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period. London.
Brommer, F. 1979 Sculptures of the Parthenon. London.
Carpenter, R. 1960 Greek Sculpture. Chicago.
The Getty Kouros Colloquium. Athens 1993.
Jenkins, I. 1994 The Parthenon Frieze. Austin.
Lullies, R., M. Hirmer. 1957 Greek Sculpture. London.
Mattusch, C. et al. 1996 The Fire of Hephaistos. Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections.
Cambridge, Mass.
Mattusch, C. 1988 Greek Bronze Statuary, from the Beginnings through the Fifth Century B.C. Ithaca.
Neils, J. 2001 The Parthenon Frieze. Cambridge.
Payne, H., G. Mackworth-Young 1950 Archaic Marble Sculpture from the Acropolis. New York.
Richter, G. M. A. 1970 Kouroi. 3rd edition. London.
-----. 1968 Korai. London.
Ridgway, B. S. 1999 Prayers in Stone. Greek Architectural Sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.E. Berkeley.
-----. 1990 Hellenistic Sculpture I. Madison.
-----. 1981 Fifth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture. Princeton.
-----. 1977 The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture. Princeton.
-----. 1970 The Severe Style in Greek Sculpture. Princeton.
Robertson, M. 1975 The Parthenon Frieze. London.
Smith, R.R.R. 1991 Hellenistic Sculpture. London.
Stewart, A. 1990 Greek Sculpture: An Exploration. New Haven.
vi) Painting & Vase-Painting
Andronikos, M. 1992 Vergina. Athens.
-----. 1984 Vergina: The Royal Tombs and the Ancient City. Athens.
Arias, P., Hirmer, M and B.B. Shefton 1962 A History of Greek Vase-Painting. London.
Beazley, J.D. 1986 The Development of Attic Black Figure. Berkeley.
-----. 1974 The Pan Painter. Mainz.
-----. 1974 The Kleophrades Painter. Mainz.
Boardman, J. 2001 The History of Greek vases: potters, painters and pictures. London.
-----. 1998 Early Greek Vase-Painting. London.
-----. 1989 Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period. London.
-----. 1975 Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period. London.
-----. 1974 Athenian Black Figure Vases. London.
Bruno, V. 1977 Form and Color in Greek Painting. New York.
Carpenter, T.J. 1991 Art and Myth in Ancient Greece. London.
Cook, R.M. 1997 Greek Painted Pottery. Third edition. London.
Kurtz, D.C. 1983 The Berlin Painter. Oxford.
Morris, S.P. 1984 The Black and White Style. Athens and Aigina in the Orientalizing Period. New Haven.
Noble, J.V. 1988 The Techniques of Painted Attic Pottery. Revised edition. London.
Oakley, J.H. 1990 The Phiale Painter. Mainz.
Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World. Malibu 1987.
Rasmussen, T., N. Spivey (eds.) 1991 Looking at Greek Vases. Cambridge.
Robertson, M. 1992 The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge.
-----. 1959 Greek Painting. Geneva.
Schefold, K. 1992 Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. Trans. A. Griffiths. Cambridge.
-----. 1966 Myth and Legend in Early Greek Art. Trans. A. Hicks. New York.
Shapiro, H.A. 1994 Myth into Art. Poet and Painter in Classical Greece. London.
-----. 1989 Art and Cult under the Tyrants at Athens. Mainz.
Sparkes, B.A. 1991 Greek Pottery: An Introduction. Manchester.
Trendall, A.D. 1989 Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily. London.
Vickers, M., Gill, D. 1996 Artful Crafts. Ancient Greek silverware and pottery. New edition. Oxford.
vii) Mosaics
Dunbabin, K.M.D. 1999 Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World. Cambridge.
Ling, R. 1998 Ancient Mosaics. Princeton.
xiii) Minor Arts
Boardman, J. 1970 Greek Gems and Finger Rings. London.
Higgins, R. 1980 Greek and Roman Jewelry. Second edition. Berkeley.
-----. 1967 Greek Terracottas. London.
Strong, D.E. 1966 Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate. London.
Williams, D., J. Gold 1994 Greek Gold. New York.
ix) Site-specific works
Athens: The City beneath the City. Antiquities from the Metropolitan Railway Excavations. New York 2000.
Camp, J.M. 1986 The Athenian Agora. Excavations in the Heart of Athens. Updated edition. London.
Carratelli, G.P. (ed.) 1996 The Western Greeks. Classical Civilization in the Western Mediterranean. London.
Drees, L. 1968 Olympia: Gods, Artists and Athletes. Trans. G. Onn. London. (M, W)
Economakis, R. (ed.) 1994 Acropolis Restoration. The CCAM Interventions. London.
Finley, M.I. & H.W. Pleket 1976 The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years. London. (M, ---)
Harris, H.A. 1964 Greek Athletes and Athletics. London. (---, W)
Hurwit, J.M. 1999 The Athenian Acropolis. Cambridge.
Neils, J. (ed.) 1992 Goddess and Polis. The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Princeton.
Swaddling, J. 1980 The Ancient Olympic Games. London. (M, W)
Thompson, H. 1959 The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens. Princeton. (M, ---)
Tomlinson, R.A. 1983 Epidauros. Austin.
Wycherley, R.E. 1978 The Stones of Athens. Princeton.