Alexander Riders: Small-Scale Portraits of Alexander the Great on Horseback

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Small-Scale Sculpture in Greek and Roman Society: A Reassessment 1
4. Sizing up Art: The Intermedial Semantics of Scale in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds 29
5. Small Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Approach to Small-Scale Sculptures in Ancient Criticism 69
6. Small-scale Cult Statues of the Sixth Century BC 91
7. Small Statements of Prestige: On a Group of Early Classical Marble Statuettes from Selinunte 101
8. From Mold to Masterpiece: Producing Small- Scale Hellenistic Ruler Bronzes in Ptolemaic Egypt 125
9. A Miniature Myth: About Some Clay Figurines of the Niobids 155
10. Alexander Riders: Small-Scale Portraits of Alexander the Great on Horseback 173
11. Parvitatis ut miraculum: Pliny the Elder and Nature’s Sense of Scale 199
12. Scripta effigies: un esempio di interazione testo-immagine in Marziale e in Stazio 221
13. Una statua di Eracle al Museo Nazionale Romano: fra scultura ideale e ritratto 235
14. Lavorare in scala: derivazioni e metamorfosi dell’Atena Parthenos 255
15. Il mito nell’arredo di lusso. Modalità di adattamento di soggetti a tutto tondo nei monopodi marmorei romani 279
16. Index 291