John Boardman, Author Thames & Hudson $50 (240p) ISBN 978-0-500-05115-3
Anyone who's visited Paul Bunyan's birthplace or seen a""George Washington Slept Here"" plaque will feel a pang of recognition at this engaging survey of the material basis of Greek mythology in the Classical era. According to Boardman, an authority
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John Boardman, Author . Thames & Hudson $45 (320p) ISBN 978-0-500-23780-9
Sir John Boardman—author of Greek Art, Athenian Black Figure Vases
and Early Greek Vase Painting—is Mr. Greek Vases, and his masterful and classy explications of what might in other hands seem dry and dusty archeological material are a...
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John Boardman, Author, David Finn, Author, David Finn, Photographer University of Texas Press $45 (256p) ISBN 978-0-292-76498-9
The Parthenon was built to glorify Athens. Pericles conceived its marble sculptures as an embodiment of the city's leadership of Greece, and of the Greeks' recent success in routing the Persians. Military heroes and kings are represented along with...
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John Boardman. Thames & Hudson, $50 (240p) ISBN 978-0-500-25213-0
In spite of Alexander the Great's conquests in the Mediterranean and beyond, the Greeks were not empire builders, claims art historian Boardman (The Greeks Overseas). Rather, as he elegantly demonstrates in this richly illustrated chronicle, the...
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