本书主要分为三部分：艺术的体验、史前艺术、古代艺术。涉及内容：观看艺术、分析艺术、历史中的艺术家、古代艺术导论、苏美尔艺术、古埃及艺术、埃及金字塔、埃及神庙等。

The book is mainly divided into 3 parts: the experience of art, prehistorical art and ancient art. It covers rich content including the art of seeing, the art of analysis, artists in history, introduction of ancient art, Sumerian art, Ancient Egyptian art, Egyptian art, Egyptian Pyramids, Egyptian Temple and so on.

流传至今的古埃及艺术我们仍未知晓其创造者，但我们对这些大师的作品的重视丝毫不亚于后世的作品，例如米开朗基罗的雕像或达·芬奇的画作。

本书对一些具有重要意义的画作进行了介绍，时间范围从公元前3000年的古王国到罗马时期。作品包括雕塑、浮雕、石棺、壁画、面具，和装饰物品等，其中大部分现在收藏在开罗的埃及博物馆，但一些被占领的地方遗留下的作品，作为世界文化遗产的一部分，保存在巴黎的博物馆，如巴黎的卢浮宫、大英博物馆，柏林、埃及博物馆，纽约大都会博物馆。

The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as statues by Michelangelo or the paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. This book introduces some of the most important masterpieces, ranging from the Old Kingdom during the Third millennium BC to the Roman Period. The works encompass sculptures, reliefs, sarcophagi, murals, masks, and decorative items, most of them now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but some occupying places of honor as part of the World Cultural Heritage in museums such as the Louvre in Paris, the British Museum in London, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

约翰•博德曼（John Boardman）更新了他对最受西方观众欢迎的历史艺术传统之一的经典叙述。在上一版发行以来的二十年中，出现了宝贵的证据，这些证据极大地提升了我们对这个古老文明的艺术的理解。

我们可以确定单个艺术家的作品和艺术家流派，并且比以往任何时候都更清晰地了解艺术和艺术观念在整个希腊世界中的传播方式。

博德曼（Boardman）鼓励读者们考虑那些精美的艺术作品，这些作品被保存在其所处的原始环境中，而不是被作为我们现代美术馆中孤立的装置艺术。他将对产生这些艺术品的社会的深刻见解融入到了对它们的讨论中。

John Boardman has updated his classic account of one of the most popular historic artistic traditions among Western audiences. In the twenty years since the last edition was released, valuable evidence has come to light which has dramatically enhanced our understanding of the art of this ancient civilization. We now know conclusively that Greeks in fact lavished their sculptures with realistic colour paint, and also worked with a wealth of other materials on a major scale, including wood and precious metals, proving that our view of classic pure white marble of the age is a Renaissance construction. We can identify the work of individual artists, and schools of artists, and have a clearer picture than ever of how art and artistic ideas travelled throughout the Greek world. Boardman encourages the reader to consider the beautiful pieces that have been preserved in their original context, rather than as the isolated installations of our modern galleries, weaving into the discussion of the art objects insights into the society that produced them. 

2,000多年来，希腊和罗马的艺术已成为西方文明的核心。本书再现了最初创作它的艺术家们的激动。它描述了那些挑战传统智慧，探索新观念的艺术家们的大胆创新；它描述了雕塑家和画家们为描绘（首次）人类外形的复杂性和人类情感的丰富性而进行的英勇斗争。随着时间的流逝，太多东西遭遇了毁坏，以至于希腊和罗马艺术似乎只由令人印象深刻的废墟和破碎的碎片组成。然而，希腊人的创造性成就及其遗产，经过罗马人的改造，从未失去其力量。

For more than 2,000 years the art of Greece and Rome has lain at the heart of western civilization. This book recaptures the excitement of the artists who first created it. It traces the daring innovations of those who, defying traditional wisdom, explored new ideas; it describes the valiant struggles of sculptors and painters to portray - for the first time - both the complexities of the human form and the richness of human emotions. So much has been destroyed by the ravages of time that Greek and Roman art seems to consist only of impressive ruins and broken fragments. Yet the creative achievements of the Greeks and their legacy, as adapted by the Romans, have never lost their power. 

这个版本增加了早期青铜时代，后希腊时代，和考古背景的介绍，让读者更好的理解整个历史发展。精美的图片，地图和计划，让人看到充满活力的古代世界图景。按时间和地图推进，让读者思考时间和空间，并理解古老视觉文化是如何影响今天的。

Celebrated for its abundant illustrations and accessible voice, Art & Archaeology of the Greek World arrives in its second edition with more coverage of the earliest Bronze Age and latest Hellenistic periods, and increased archaeological context; the picture of ancient Greek art is expanded to help readers better understand how the subject connects to, and reflects, the historical developments of the time. 

社会和政治背景下的罗马帝国艺术，这本新的概述通过将作品置于完整的历史背景中来理解罗马艺术——向学生展示了艺术在罗马社会和政治中如何被使用以及为何被使用（例如，富有的罗马人通过赞助公共项目来推广自己）。本书创新地专门用几个章节介绍了各省的艺术而不是只局限于罗马这个国家。马克•富勒顿（Mark Fullerton）对整个帝国的罗马艺术进行了最深入的研究，将罗马艺术与地中海以及整个世界联系在一起。

The art of the Roman empire, in social and political context This new survey makes sense of Roman art by placing works in their full historical context―showing students not only how but also why art was used in Roman society and politics (such as wealthy Romans sponsoring public projects to promote themselves). The book breaks new ground by devoting chapters to art from the provinces, rather than focusing solely on Rome itself. Mark Fullerton provides the most in-depth look at Roman art from across the empire, connecting Roman art to the Mediterranean and the wider world.