In-depth case studies of individual statuary types form the core of this analysis of sculptural copying in antiquity. By examining the popular genre of the copy, the book illuminates broad questions of Roman sculptural production and the methodological limitations of traditional approaches to the subject.

Offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names during the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

A new, illustrated study of the Iliac tablets, a group of objects inscribed in miniature with epic episodes. Like the tablets themselves, Michael Squire tackles major themes through small ones, by relating their production to macroscopic problems of signification in Graeco-Roman antiquity.

An Roms Auseinandersetzung mit Griechenland ist modellhaft zu beobachten, wie durch die Rezeption einer fremden Zivilisation neue kulturelle Identitat entsteht. Besonders bei der produktiven Aufnahme einer uberlegenen Kultur ist dies ein Vorgang voller Gegenstrebigkeiten. Hierzu fehlt es bislang an ubergreifenden Uberlegungen. Ein Greifswalder Symposion versammelte Altertumswissenschaften und neuere Philologien, wobei

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?