This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda Westervelt and Lorenz Winkler-Horacek. The contents are divided into four sections I. Structure and Ornament; II. Technique and Agency; III. Myth and Narrative and IV. Diffusion and Influence. Highlights include Robin Osbornes discussion of What you can do with a chariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; Ralf von den Hoffs consideration of the Athenian treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwabs presentation of New evidence for Parthenon east metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety of issues in architectural sculpture but also present a range of case studies from all over the Greek world. The result is an important collection of current research.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Part I: Structure and Ornament
  • Chapter 1: The narratology and theology of architectural sculpture, or What you can do with a chariot but can’t do with a satyr on a Greek temple
  • Chapter 2: Back to the second century B.C.: new thoughts on the date of the sculptured coffers from the temple of Athena Polias, Priene
  • Chapter 3: Inscription as ornament in Greek architecture
  • Chapter 4: The origins of the Corinthian capital
  • Chapter 5: Architectural sculpture: messages? programs? Towards rehabilitating the notion of ‘decoration’
• Part II: Technique and Agency
  • Chapter 6: Accounting for agency at Epidauros: A note on IG IV2 102 AI–BI and the economies of style
  • Chapter 7: New evidence for Parthenon east metope 14
  • Chapter 8: Hair or wreath? Metal attachments on marble heads in architectural sculpture
• Part III: Myth and Narrative
  • Chapter 9: Herakles, Theseus and the Athenian treasury at Delphi
  • Chapter 10: A new approach to the Hephaisteion: Heroic models in the Athenian Agora
  • Chapter 11: Interpretations of the Ionic frieze of the temple of Poseidon at Sounion
  • Chapter 12: Herakles: The sculptural program of the temple of Zeus at Olympia
• Part IV: Diffusion and Influence
  • Chapter 13: The relief metopes from Selinus: programs and messages
  • Chapter 14: Exchange and influence: hybridity and the gate reliefs of Thasos
  • Chapter 15: The reception of architectural sculpture in two-dimensional art
  • Chapter 16: Roman victory and Greek identity: the battle frieze on the “Parthian” monument at Ephesus
• Abbreviations
• References