Ada Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat and co-editor of Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy and Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography.

• 1. Introduction: themes and issues; 2. Figural mosaics in the House of the Abduction of Helen at Pella: three themes; 3. Master of lions (and other animals); 4. War as hunt; hunt as war?; 5. Rape as hunt; hunt as rape?; 6. Rape as war; war as rape?; 7. Abduction and femininity; 8. Hunt and masculinity; Epilogue: fixing the pose.

Ada Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat and co-editor of Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy and Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography.

• 1. Introduction: themes and issues; 2. Figural mosaics in the House of the Abduction of Helen at Pella: three themes; 3. Master of lions (and other animals); 4. War as hunt; hunt as war?; 5. Rape as hunt; hunt as rape?; 6. Rape as war; war as rape?; 7. Abduction and femininity; 8. Hunt and masculinity; Epilogue: fixing the pose.

Ada Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat and co-editor of Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy and Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography.

• 1. Introduction: themes and issues; 2. Figural mosaics in the House of the Abduction of Helen at Pella: three themes; 3. Master of lions (and other animals); 4. War as hunt; hunt as war?; 5. Rape as hunt; hunt as rape?; 6. Rape as war; war as rape?; 7. Abduction and femininity; 8. Hunt and masculinity; Epilogue: fixing the pose.