1. Introduction
Historical background
The context and function of Hellenistic statutes
Patrons and sculptors
The evidence : literature and inscriptions
Originals and copies
The study of Hellenistic sculpture : schools and development
pt. I. The elements of Hellenistic statuary
2. Alexander and the kings
Statute types and attributes
Alexander
Kings after Alexander
3. Philosophers, orators, and poets
Philosophers
Orator-politicians
Menander and poets
4. Athletes
5. The gods
6. Goddesses and women
Draped goddesses
The Nike of Samothrace
Naked Aphrodites
Interpretations of naked Aphrodites
Draped women
7. Baroque groups : gauls and heroes
Large and small gauls
Pasquino, Penthesilea, and Marsyas
Other mythological groups
Laocoön
Sperlonga
8. The world of Dionysos
Satyrs, maenads, nymphs
Centaurs
Sleeping Hermaphrodite
Barberini Faun
Genre and peasants
pt. II. Sculpture in the Hellenistic kingdoms
9. Pergamon and the Great Altar
Original statutes
The Great Altar
The gigantomachy
The Telephos frieze
10. Reliefs : friezes and stelai
Architectural sculpture and friezes
Votive reliefs
Grave stelai
The Alexander Sarcophagus
11. The Ptolemies and Alexandria
Cyprus
12. The Seleucids and the east
Syria
Ai Khanoum and Bactria
Shami, Failaka, Seleucia
Kommagene and Antiochos I
13. Macedonia and Greece
Athens
The Peloponnese and Damophon
The islands and the Aegean
14. Late Hellenistic : Delos to Rome
Delos and the new portraiture
Copies and classicism at Rome
15. Conclusion : chronology
Hellenistic sculpture under the empire
Abbreviations.