This volume collects eight contributions of specialists in the field of early Greek art history on the topic of one of the core themes of Western visual culture. It deals with the emergence and development of ways to seeing and depicting that have shaped the art of later epochs. The themes/topics range from format restrictions and imagery overlaps, the playfulness regarding ornaments and three-dimensional space, cross-cultural connections that show in votives objects found in larger sanctuaries, but also the decoding of the ways of depicting garments – the latter at the same time being a contribution to discussion of the methodology of how to interpret Archaic Greek figurative art.

The volumes published in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde comprise monographs, collective volumes, editions, translations and commentaries on various topics from the fields of Greek and Latin Philology, Ancient History, Archeology, Ancient Philosophy as well as Classical Reception Studies. The series thus offers indispensable research tools for a wide range of disciplines related to Ancient Studies.