Eugenie Strong (nee Sellers, 1860-1943) studied classics at Girton
College, Cambridge, and then classical archaeology in London. Her
translations of Schuchardt's account of Schliemann's excavations at
Troy, and of Furtwangler's Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture, are
also reissued in this series. Among other distinctions, she was the
first female student of the British School at Athens, and in 1909
(partly as a result of the 1907 publication of this book) was
appointed assistant director of the British School at Rome. Roman
sculpture had consistently been regarded as the 'poor relation' of
what was seen as the superior art of Greece, but in this highly
illustrated work, covering the period from Augustus to Constantine,
Strong argues both for its particular aesthetic qualities and also
for its importance as occupying a special place 'at the
psychological moment when the Antique passes from the service of
the Pagan State into that of Christianity'.
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