Author: Michael ShanksPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521602853
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A contribution to recent debates on emerging Greek city states in the first millennium BC.
Art and the Early Greek State
Author: Michael ShanksPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521602853
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A contribution to recent debates on emerging Greek city states in the first millennium BC.
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
Author: Mary Louise HartPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060376
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Archaic and Classical Greek Art
Author: Robin OsbornePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842022
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Explores the art of ancient Greece and its relationship to the world in which it was produced.
The Ancient View of Greek Art
Author: J. J. PollittPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300015973
Category : Art criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Art and Experience in Classical Greece
Author: Jerome Jordan PollittPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521096621
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"delightful, readable, and scholarly. The volume is profusely and well illustrated, each art example is clearly labelled and dated, and superb supplementary references for illustrations and supplementary suggestions for further reading are added to complete the study." Choice
Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture
Author: Simon GoldhillPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521411851
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Specifically commissioned essays discussing how the ancient Greek art and literature were viewed by others in antiquity.
Homer and the Artists
Author: Anthony SnodgrassPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521629812
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This is a book about Homer, myth and art. The Iliad and Odyssey so dominate our view of ancient Greece that our natural reaction on viewing certain works of early Greek art is to identify them as 'scenes from Homer'. However, Anthony Snodgrass argues that, so far from 'illustrating' the Homeric poems, these works very rarely show signs of acquaintance with the Iliad or Odyssey, seldom even choosing their subject-matter from them. When the subjects do overlap, the artists occasionally give positive signs of preferring a non-Homeric version of the episode. He then attempts to explain why this should be so: despite Homer's unique standing in antiquity, the artists inhabited an independent world, where their own inspirations and concerns dominated their production. It is only the traditional dominance of the literary study of antiquity which has hidden this from us.
Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry
Author: Emily VermeulePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520310829
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The ancient Greeks devoted a significant portion of their poetic and artistic energy to exploring themes of death. Vermeule examines the facts and fictions of Greek death, including burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the value of heroic death in battle, the quest for immortality, the linked powers of death, sleep, and love, and more. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Ancient Greek Art
Author: Susie HodgePublisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403487667
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Examines the art of ancient Greece, including mosaics, pottery, sculpture, architechture, and paintings.
Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State
Author: Hans BeckPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022671151X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A Greek historian investigates the importance of local identity in the Mediterranean world in a “rare, genuinely original book . . . Highly recommended” (Choice). Much as our modern world is interconnected through global networks, the ancient Greek city-states were a dynamic part of the wider Mediterranean landscape. In Localism and the Ancient Greek World, historian Hans Beck argues that local shifts in politics, religion and culture had a pervasive influence in a world of fast-paced change. Citizens in these communities were deeply concerned with maintaining local identity, commercial freedom, distinct religious cults, and much more. Beyond these cultural identifiers, there lay a deeper concept of the local that guided polis societies in their contact with a rapidly expanding world. Drawing on a staggering range of materials—including texts by both known and obscure writers, numismatics, pottery analysis, and archeological records—Beck develops fine-grained case studies that illustrate the significance of the local experience. Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State builds bridges across disciplines and ideas within the humanities. It highlights the importance of localism not only in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, but also in today’s conversations about globalism, networks, and migration.