written and perceptive discussion of the development of Archaic art within its cultural and intellectual
environment.

Osborne, R. Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford and New York 1998): a stimulating and well-
illustrated account of Greek art from ca. 800 bc to the end of the Classical Period.

Rayor, D. J. (trans.) Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (Cambridge 2014): fine
translations of everything that now survives of Sappho’s verse, including the most recent discoveries,
with excellent introduction and notes by André Lardinois.

West, M. L. (trans.) Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford 1993): clear and accurate translations of nearly all the
poems and fragments of the Archaic iambic, elegiac, and lyric poets.

West, M. L. (ed. and trans.) Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer (Cambridge, MA and
London 2003): accurate and readable translations of all the “Homeric” hymns by a brilliant authority on
Greek poetry.

Whitley, J. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 2001): an excellent introduction to Greek
archaeology, with an up-to-date synthesis of current research on the material culture of Greece,
particularly strong on the Archaic Period.

Suggested Internet Resources

Greek Art in the Archaic Period (metmuseum.org/toah/hd/argk/hd_argk.htm, accessed March 29, 2016) is
an excellent introduction to the various developments in the art of the Archaic Period, illustrated with
objects in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The National Archaeological Museum (namuseum.gr/collections/sculpture/archaiki-en.html, accessed
March 29, 2016) and the Acropolis Museum in Athens (theacropolismuseum.gr/en/units/archaic-
acropolis, accessed March 29, 2016) have made available digital images of many objects in their
extensive collections of Archaic sculpture.

Tracing the Colors of Ancient Sculpture (youtu.be/7UsYHo5iarM, accessed March 29, 2016) is an eye-
opening video from The J. Paul Getty Museum showing some of the reconstructions by Vinzenz Brinkmann
of the original color design of Archaic Greek sculpture.

Egyptian Blue on Parthenon (youtu.be/uwDHi2KNM4s, accessed March 29, 2016) and A Parthenon
Metope: History and Reconstruction (youtu.be/EW5DMs1g_OE, accessed March 29, 2016) are videos
from the British Museum that explore the possibilities of reconstruction in color of sculptures from the
Parthenon in Athens.

Papyrology: Online Exhibits (lib.umich.edu/papyrology-collection/papyrology-online-exhibits, accessed
March 29, 2016) is a wonderful resource from the University of Michigan Library, with links to exhibits
about the manufacture, conservation, and reading of Greek papyri.

Papyrus (pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/papyrus, accessed March 29, 2016) is a short video from NOVA
that shows how the papyrus plant is made into a writing surface and how researchers are using
multispectral imaging to read otherwise illegible ancient texts.

Ancient Greek Music (oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm, accessed March 29, 2016) reflects the meticulous scholarship