This reconstruction does not reproduce the point of vies of someone emerging from the Propylaea but that of a viewer standing to the south-west, roughly at the corner of the precinct of Artemis Brauronia. In this perspective, the background is filled in with the upper part of the Erechtheum. Another… Read more
Very useful on the question of how, or how much of the statue would have been visible on the ascent to the Acropolis and through the Propylaea, is the analysis and review of the issues by Samantha Martin-McAuliffe and John K. Papadopoulos 2012 (“Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis, and… Read more
The evidence for the existence of a “Promakhos” iconograpic type that is both distinct but in actuality indistinguishable from the Palladium is extremely weak. The epithet is occasionally applied to Athena in late antique sources, and the earliest mention in reference to the statue by Pheidias is in a scholion… Read more
An important article on the Library of Alexandria and Demetrius’ supposed involvement is Bagnall 2002 (especially pages 349–351). Bagnall, R. 2002. "Alexandria: Library of Dreams." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 146: 348–362. Read more
Ritoók 1993 usefully distinguishes between three types of stories about the ‘Pisistratid recension’ and shows how the tradition of the Pisistratid recension developed over time. Ritoók, Z. 1993. “The Pisistratus Tradition and the Canonization of Homer.” Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 34: 39–53. Read more
I've been working on the supposed rivalry between Alexandria and Pergamon, and I very much agree that "such reductive formulations, by implying a symmetrical rivalry between Alexandria and Pergamon, tend to blur the ongoing rivalry of Pergamon with centers of learning other than Alexandria, especially Athens." Well-formulated and I must… Read more
