The Culture of the Greek Workshop -- Man as Raw Material -- The Body and Its Tools -- Military and Civil Crafts -- Greek Art and the Culture of Conflict -- The General as Craftsman and the Soldier as Artefact -- The Necessity of the Phalanx -- The Iliad: Women at Home, Men at War -- War and Art: The 'Military' Style of Pottery -- War and Art: Phalanx and Temple -- War and Philosophy: Kosmos and Harmonia -- War and Philosophy: The First 'Mathematicians' -- War, Mathematics and Art: The 'Square' Man -- Mathematical Art versus the Mathematical Army -- Plato and the Mathematical Guards -- The Power of Women and the Aesthetics of Peace -- Greek Art and the Culture of Competition -- Work and Competition -- Competition, Imitation and Improvement -- Competition: Its Organisation and Regulation -- Competition in Art -- Competition and the Rise of Classical Art -- Competition and Continuous Change -- The Intellectual Marketplace: Competitive Models -- The Intellectual Marketplace: Plato's Paradigm -- Isocrates and the Theory of Classical Culture -- Hellenistic Art and the Culture of Character -- Alexander: Paradigmatic Breaker of the Paradigm -- Alexander and Art -- Responses to the Paradigm -- The 'Modern' Artist -- 'Modern' Art -- The Patron, the Artist, the Model and the Viewer -- From the Viewer as Hero to the Viewer as Victim -- Man Caught in His Own Net -- Paradigms Packaged: Education and the Copy -- Athens, the Capital of Packaging -- Roman Art and the Culture of Memory -- The Instruments of Success -- Augury and Mapping.
Art and Memory -- Money, Monuments and Signs -- Monuments and Memory -- Vespasian's Architectural Memory System -- Money and Monuments in the Later Empire -- Memorials of the Dead -- Christianity: A Contract for the After-life -- The Sign of the Cross -- Rome and the Culture of Imagination -- Beyond Reason -- Metamorphosis and the Magic of Augustus -- Metamorphosis of Nature -- Metamorphosis and the History of Art -- Metamorphosis of Culture -- Roman Style as the Style of Transformation -- The Empire of the Imagination -- Rhetoric and the Education of the Imagination -- The Educated Imagination and the Work of Art -- Imagination and the Psychology of Perception -- From Images in Clouds to Pictures in Marble -- The Rise of the Imagination and Material Decline -- Dreams and Visions; Conversion and Transubstantiation -- The Culture of the Christian Church -- Closing the Schools -- The Christian and the External World -- The Christian and the Internal World -- Christian Building Blocks.
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