Author: Arthur Dale TrendallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : de
Pages : 280
Book Description
Studies in Honour of Arthur Dale Trendall
Author: Arthur Dale TrendallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : de
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium
Author: Kathryn TopperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107011027
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present.
The Early Amazons
Author: Josine BlokPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004301437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons.
Sotades
Author: Herbert HoffmannPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198150619
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In this book the author explores the work of the fifth-century BC Athenian vase-painter, Sotades, one of the most familiar names in vase painting. Previous scholarship has dealt mainly with questions of attribution, style, and iconographic interpretation, but Dr Hoffman concentrates on inherent meaning: what does the imagery of these decorated vases really signify. He argues that, contrary to widely held conceptions, there is an underlying unity of meaning in Greek vases and their imagery, a unity rooted in the religious beliefs and ritual practices of the society from which they spring. Each chapter discusses a specific aspect of the artist's iconology, placing it in the context of fifth-century BC Greek philosophical and religious thought.
Childhood in Ancient Athens
Author: Lesley A. BeaumontPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136486690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society: these perceptions variously exhibit both similarities and stark contrasts with those of our own 21st century Western society. The study covers the juvenile life course from birth and infancy through early and later childhood, and treats these life stages according to the topics of nurture, play, education, work, cult and ritual, and death. In view of the scant ancient Greek literary evidence pertaining to childhood, Beaumont focuses on the more copious ancient visual representations of children in Athenian pot painting, sculpture, and terracotta modelling. Notably, this is the first full-length monograph in English to address the iconography of childhood in ancient Athens, and it breaks important new ground by rigorously analysing and evaluating classical art to reconstruct childhood’s social history. With over 120 illustrations, the book provides a rich visual, as well as narrative, resource for the history of childhood in classical antiquity.
Bulletin - Medelhavsmuseet
Author: Medelhavsmuseet (Stockholm, Sweden)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens
Author: Martin RobertsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521338813
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In his new book, Professor Martin Robertson - author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) - draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the 'red-figure' technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. The book is intended as a companion volume to Sir John Beazley's The Development of Attic Black-figure (originally published in 1951 by California University Press), and as an examination and defence of Beazley's methods and achievements. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject - whether scholar, student, curator, collector or amateur - will find it essential reading.
The Search for Knowledge and Understanding
Author: Professor Maxwell R. Bennett AOPublisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1742104509
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
For nearly a millennium, universities have searched forknowledge, understanding and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist,Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars inthe University of Sydney’s history and shows how this university’s search hasbenefitted society in manifold ways. The Search forKnowledge and Understanding demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach, asBennett crafts short but insightful biographies of some of the most significantscholars that have worked at Australia’s oldest university over the past halfcentury, in medicine, the life sciences, the physical sciences and thehumanities and social sciences. Bennet provides a striking account of how this particularscholarly community has flourished by nurturing scholars and allowing them withthe intellectual freedom to pursue their passions. The book clarifies thenotion of understanding as it holds in different disciplines and depicts thebenefit the world of scholarship can have on the wider community.
Ctesias: On India
Author: Andrew NicholsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472519973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the Indus Valley. His Indika (On India), was the first monograph ever written on India by a western author, introducing its readers to such fantastic creatures as the unicorn and the martichora, along with real life subjects such as the parrot and the art of falconry. Confirming pre-existing conceptions of what were considered to be the edges of the earth, Ctesias' Indika helped shape the Greek view of India. This English translation is accompanied by explanatory notes and includes all extant fragments of the Indika, as well as fragments of Ctesias' other minor works.
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC
Author: Margaret C. MillerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521607582
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
First comprehensive collection of evidence of the relations between Athens and Persia in fifth century BC.