Johann Jakob Horner (1772-1831) possessed a deep knowledge of art history of art and was also an accomplished literary critic. His articles on the lives of various artists were published in a number of art reviews. The present edition is an album with articles, descriptions and images of Greek antiquities, which was praised by Goethe among others. It includes engravings and drawings by J. Stuart and N. Revett (the monument of Lysicrates, a plan of the Parthenon, etc.), W. M. Leake (topography of Athens), W. Gell, C.R. Cockerell (a plan of the Acropolis), M.G.F.A. Choiseul-Gouffier (a restoration of ancient Assos), as well as views of Troy and the Argolid, accompanied by corresponding commentaries. There are also drawings of ancient vases, reliefs (including metopes from the temple of Apollo Epicurius in Phigaleia), coins and busts of eminent ancient Greeks, mainly housed in the museums of Vienna and Rome.

Written by Ioli Vingopoulou

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  Title page.

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  Title page.

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  Map of the greater area of Troy.

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  The valley of Simoes river in the Troy region.

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  I. The wall of the Acropolis of Larissa in Argos. II and III: Section and plan of the "Treasury of Atreus" in Mycenae. IV: The entrance to the "Treasury of Atreus" in Mycenae. V: The Lion Gate in Argos.

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  Funerary stele from Villa Albani and relief from the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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  Map of the plain of Troy.

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  Plate showing plans of ancient Greek temples.

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  Architectural orders of ancient Greek temples.

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  Busts of Lycurgus, Solo, Periander and Thales.

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  Heracles steals the tripod of Delphi and Apollo claims it back.

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  View of Athens from Lycabettus hill.

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  Busts of Themistocles, Miltiades, Aspasia and Pericles.

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  Iris, Apollo, Artemis and Leto.

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  The Temple of Poseidon in Paestum, Italy.

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  Busts of Sophocles, Euripides, Menander and Poseidippus.

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  Busts of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Diogenes the Cynic.

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  Busts of Zeno, Chrysippus, Epicurus and Metrodorus.

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  Attic red-figure kalathos with depiction of lyrical poets Apollo and Sappho, housed in the State Collection of Antiques (Staatliche Antikensammlungen) of Munich.

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  Bust of Athena Pallas from Villa Albani, Rome.

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  Tripods.

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  Signets showing Artemis, an apoxyomenos athlete (Tydeus), Eros and Athena.

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  Bust of Zeus from the Vatican museum.

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  Amazons from the Vatican Museum and from the frieze of Apollo Epicurius temple in Figaleia, today in the Bristish Museum.

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  Niobe and her youngest daughter from the copy of the Niobids complex in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

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  Copy of the Discobolus of Myro (Vatican Μuseum) and the Discophoros of Naucydes (British Museum).

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  Busts of Herodotus, Thucydides, Asclepiades and Hippocrates.

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  Busts of Isocrates, Lysias, Demosthenes and Aeschines.

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  Bust of Alexander the Great from the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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  Bust of Dionysus from the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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  The ancient theatre of Tauromenion (Taormina), Sicily.

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  Plan of the ancient theatre of Tauromenion (Taormina), Sicily.

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  The head of the statue of Apollo Belvedere, Vatican Museum, Rome.

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  Copy of the sculpture of Apollo Sauroctonos from Louvre Museum.