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Osborne's book is original and important, as is its advocacy of a shift away from questions of technique and influence . . . towards attention to subject and manner of representation. * Times Higher Education *

At a time when, despite lip service, teaching is woefully undervalued in much of higher education, Oxford College of Emory University's Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts honors committed, innovative, and successful teaching and teachers. These essays reflect some of the best sessions from IPLA over the years and provide the reader with powerful and successful models for improving their teaching, and, more importantly, through that teaching improving student learning. -- Edward L. Queen, Center for Ethics, Emory University Pedagogical approaches to Inquiry-based learning serve to build a solid foundation for critical thinking skills that are essential to student success in college and careers. The essays contained in this volume will serve as model best practices to assist other educators trying to adopt an inquiry-based approach. -- Jill Lane, Assistant Vice President of Academic Planning and Assessment, Clayton State University In this collection of essays from the IPLA incubator, Galle and Harrison and their authors show that, while inquiry-guided learning projects may be grounded in specific courses, the approach itself transcends these particular contexts, and inquiry is ultimately a habit of mind of the educated person. -- Nancy Chick, Academic Director of the Taylor Institute for Teaching & Learning; University Chair in Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary

Co-Winner of the 2019 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League Osborne's gifts as an observer of ancient art are beyond dispute. His discussions of the vase scenes he has chosen to explore are filled with the kind of insight that make one inclined to accept any conclusions to which they might lead. His book offers a radically new approach to the Attic vases, one that might even achieve the two grand goals Osborne sets for it: not only to 'rewrite the history of art' but also to 'rewrite history.' ---James Romm, New York Review of Books Osborne's book is original and important, as is its advocacy of a shift away from questions of technique and influence . . . towards attention to subject and manner of representation. * Times Higher Education * [The Transfomation of Athens] reinstates Athenian pottery to the place it deserves and acknowledges the enormous potential of painted vases to illuminate many areas of Greek culture. . . . This is a lucid, engaging and persuasive book. ---Diana Rodriguez Perez, Burlington Magazine Beautifully produced. ---Paul Watkins, Argo

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Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of King's College. His books include Archaic and Classical Greek Art; Greece in the Making, 1200479 BC; Athens and Athenian Democracy; and The History Written on the Classical Greek Body.

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