Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.

1. Introduction -- Historical background -- The context and function of Hellenistic statutes -- Patrons and sculptors -- The evidence : literature and inscriptions -- Originals and copies -- The study of Hellenistic sculpture : schools and development -- pt. I. The elements of Hellenistic statuary -- 2. Alexander and the kings -- Statute types and attributes -- Alexander -- Kings after Alexander -- 3. Philosophers, orators, and poets -- Philosophers -- Orator-politicians -- Menander and poets -- 4. Athletes -- 5. The gods -- 6. Goddesses and women -- Draped goddesses -- The Nike of Samothrace -- Naked Aphrodites -- Interpretations of naked Aphrodites -- Draped women -- 7. Baroque groups : gauls and heroes -- Large and small gauls -- Pasquino, Penthesilea, and Marsyas -- Other mythological groups -- Laocoön -- Sperlonga -- 8. The world of Dionysos -- Satyrs, maenads, nymphs -- Centaurs -- Sleeping Hermaphrodite -- Barberini Faun -- Genre and peasants -- pt. II. Sculpture in the Hellenistic kingdoms -- 9. Pergamon and the Great Altar -- Original statutes -- The Great Altar -- The gigantomachy -- The Telephos frieze -- 10. Reliefs : friezes and stelai -- Architectural sculpture and friezes -- Votive reliefs -- Grave stelai -- The Alexander Sarcophagus -- 11. The Ptolemies and Alexandria -- Cyprus -- 12. The Seleucids and the east -- Syria -- Ai Khanoum and Bactria -- Shami, Failaka, Seleucia -- Kommagene and Antiochos I -- 13. Macedonia and Greece -- Athens -- The Peloponnese and Damophon -- The islands and the Aegean -- 14. Late Hellenistic : Delos to Rome -- Delos and the new portraiture -- Copies and classicism at Rome -- 15. Conclusion : chronology -- Hellenistic sculpture under the empire -- Abbreviations.

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