A Guide To Scenes Of Daily Life On Athenian Vases

Author : John H. Oakley,John Oakley
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299327248

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A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases by John H. Oakley,John Oakley Pdf

Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has been written on scenes of daily life, and what has been written has been tucked away in hard-to-find books and journals. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases synthesizes this material and expands it: it is the first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John H. Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations. This guide is an essential and much-needed reference for scholars and an ideal sourcebook for classics and art history.

Author : John Howard Oakley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 029932723X

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A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases by John Howard Oakley Pdf

Author : Annika Backe-Dahmen,Ursula Kästner,Agnes Schwarzmaier
Publisher : Scala Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Pottery, Ancient--Greece
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215483731

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Greek Vases by Annika Backe-Dahmen,Ursula Kästner,Agnes Schwarzmaier Pdf

Greek vases are a vital source of information on mythology and society in ancient Greece. These painted clay vessels played a variety of roles in daily life and religious ritual, and the pictures and patterns on them provide a key to understanding these roles. The Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities) in Berlin stretches back more than 300 years, and vase paintings illustrating well-known myths and sagas have long been a key field of interest. Today, the Berlin collection ranks alongside those of the British Museum, the Louvre, the Hermitage and the Metropolitan Museum as one of the largest and most diverse of its kind. Co-published with Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, this lavishly illustrated new book is the first to focus exclusively on the Antikensammlung's Greek vases. The authors, who are distinguished specialists on the collection, have selected 62 of its finest works and provided an expert commentary. SELLING POINTS: *Beautiful photographs of painted vases from ancient Greece, with depictions of famous myths or scenes from everyday life *Latest title in Scala's series of official guides to Berlin museum collections, following Pergamon Museum and Gemaldegalerie Berlin 150 colour illustrations

Author : Jenifer Neils,Dylan K. Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484558

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens by Jenifer Neils,Dylan K. Rogers Pdf

This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

Author : Naomi Weiss
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780520393097

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Seeing Theater by Naomi Weiss Pdf

This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in the fifth century BCE was understood as a complex interplay of actuality and virtuality. Classical drama frequently exposes and interrogates potential viewing experiences within the theatron—literally, “the place for seeing.” Weiss shows how, in so doing, it demands distinctive modes of engagement from its audiences. Examining plays and pottery with attention to the instability and ambiguity inherent in visual perception, Seeing Theater provides an entirely new model for understanding this ancient art form.

Author : Deborah Kamen,C. W. Marshall
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299331900

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Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity by Deborah Kamen,C. W. Marshall Pdf

Slavery and sexuality in the ancient world are well researched on their own, yet rarely have they been examined together. Chapters address a wealth of art, literature, and drama to explore a wide range of issues, including gendered power dynamics, sexual violence in slave revolts, same-sex relations between free and enslaved people, and the agency of assault victims.

Author : David Saunders,Megan E. O’Neil
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606069059

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Picture Worlds by David Saunders,Megan E. O’Neil Pdf

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures, respectively. Picture Worlds is the first book to examine the elaborately decorated terracotta vessels of these three distinct civilizations. Although the cultures were separated by space and time, they all employed pottery as a way to tell stories, explain the world, and illustrate core myths and beliefs. Each of these painted pots is a picture world. But why did these communities reach for pottery as a primary method of visual communication? How were the vessels produced and used? In this book, experts offer introductions to the civilizations, exploring these foundational questions and examining the painted imagery. Readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of each of these ancient societies, fascinating insights into their cultural commonalities and differences, and fresh perspectives on image making and storytelling, practices that remain vibrant to this day.

Author : Emily Clifford,Xavier Buxton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000912678

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The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens by Emily Clifford,Xavier Buxton Pdf

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp ‘justice’ or ‘war’ or ‘death’, when they dreamt or deliberated, how did they do it? Did they think about what they were doing? Did they imagine an imagining mind? European histories of the imagination have often begun with thinkers like Plato and Aristotle. By contrast, this volume is premised upon the idea that imaginative activity, and especially efforts to articulate it, can take place in the absence of technical terminology. In exploring an ancient culture of imagination mediated by art and literature, the book scopes out the roots of later, more explicit, theoretical enquiry. Chapters hone in on a range of visual and verbal artefacts from the Classical period. Approaching the topic from different angles – philosophical, historical, philological, literary, and art historical – they also investigate how these artefacts stimulate affective, sensory, meditative – in short, ‘imaginative’ – encounters between imagining bodies and their world. The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens offers a ground-breaking reassessment of ‘imagination’ in ancient Greek culture and thought: it will be essential reading for those interested in not only philosophies of mind, but also ancient Greek image, text, and culture more broadly.

Author : Jeffrey Beneker,Georgia Tsouvala
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299328405

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The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World by Jeffrey Beneker,Georgia Tsouvala Pdf

The famous polymath Plutarch often discussed the relationship between spouses in his works, including Marriage Advice, Dialogue on Love, and many of the Parallel Lives. In this collection, leading scholars explore the marital views expressed in Plutarch's works and the art, philosophy, and literature produced by his contemporaries and predecessors. Through aesthetically informed and sensitive modes of analysis, these contributors examine a wealth of representations—including violence in weddings and spousal devotion after death. The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World demonstrates the varying conceptions of an institution that was central to ancient social and political life—and remains prominent in the modern world. This volume will contribute to scholars' understanding of the era and fascinate anyone interested in historic depictions of marriage and the role and status of women in the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

Author : J. A. Baird,April Pudsey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108845267

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Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World by J. A. Baird,April Pudsey Pdf

Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Giacomo Fedeli,Henry Spelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009464529

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Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World by Giacomo Fedeli,Henry Spelman Pdf

The first study of ancient Greek and Roman literary history as a phenomenon on its own terms.

Author : Caspar Meyer,Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780192668752

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Drawing the Greek Vase by Caspar Meyer,Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis Pdf

How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity. Case studies of the seventeenth to the twentieth century foreground ways that artists have depicted Greek vases in a range of styles and contexts within and beyond academia. Questions addressed include: how do these images translate three-dimensional ancient utilitarian objects with iconography central to the tradition of Western painting and decorative arts into two-dimensional graphic images carrying aesthetic and epistemic value? How does the embodied practice of drawing enable people to engage with Greek vases differently from museum viewers, and what insights does it offer on ancient producers and users? And how did the invention of photography impact the tradition of drawing Greek vases? The volume addresses art historians of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, archaeologists and classical reception scholars.

Author : Andrew J. Clark,Maya Elston,Mary Louise Hart
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892365994

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Understanding Greek Vases by Andrew J. Clark,Maya Elston,Mary Louise Hart Pdf

This is an indispensable guide to anyone wishing to obtain greater understanding of Greek ceramics and heightened enjoyment of them."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Oakley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782976639

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Athenian Potters and Painters III by John Oakley Pdf

Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops Ð Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms Ð plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed paintersÕ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of a wide range of papers Ð chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the special vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. Athenian Potters and Painters III, the proceedings of an international conference held at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2012, will, like the previous two volumes, become a standard reference work in the study of Greek pottery.

Author : Gisela M. A. Richter
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1936-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 1 and 2 by Gisela M. A. Richter Pdf

Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a descriptive catalogue of the more important red-figured Athenian vases in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. This book is written to serve as a general handbook on red-figured vases. 173 vases are featured and arranged chronologically with special emphasis placed on the styles of the various painters. Descriptive texts preceed each time period while drawings and photographs elucidate the vases decoration.