From one of the world's foremost archaeologists and historians of ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancient peoples, from Britain to China In this pioneering book, acclaimed archaeologist and art historian John Boardman explores Greek art as a foreign art transmitted to the non-Greeks of antiquity--peoples who were not necessarily able to judge the meaning of Greek art and who may have regarded the Greeks themselves with great hostility. Boardman assesses how and why the arts of the classical world traveled and to what effect, roughly from the eighth century BCE to early centuries CE., from Britain to China. Since the Greeks were not always the intermediaries and the results were largely determined by the needs of the recipients, this becomes a study of foreign images accepted or copied, usually without regard to their...
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