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Author : Harvey Alan Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39015032841515
Author : Amy C. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004194175
Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.
Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351911771
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts (victory, democracy, war) all appear in human, usually female, form. Some have only fleeting incarnations, others become widely-recognised figures, and others again became so firmly established as deities in the imagination of the community that they received elements of cult associated with the Olympian gods. Though often seen as a feature of the Hellenistic period, personifications can be found in literature, art and cult from the Archaic period onwards; with the development of the art of allegory in the Hellenistic period, they came to acquire more 'intellectual' overtones; the use of allegory as an interpretative tool then enabled personifications to survive the advent of Christianity, to remain familiar figures in the art and literature of Late Antiquity and beyond. The twenty-one papers presented here cover personification in Greek literature, art and religion from its pre-Homeric origins to the Byzantine period. Classical Athens features prominently, but other areas of both mainland Greece and the Greek East are well represented. Issues which come under discussion include: problems of identification and definition; the question of gender; the status of personifications in relation to the gods; the significance of personification as a literary device; the uses and meanings of personification in different visual media; personification as a means of articulating place, time and worldly power. The papers reflect the enormous range of contexts in which personification occurs, indicating the ubiquity of the phenomenon in the ancient Greek world.
Author : Tyler Jo Smith,Dimitris Plantzos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119266815
A comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical world Includes voices from such diverse fields as art history, classical studies, and archaeology and offers a diversity of views to the topic Features an innovative group of chapters dealing with the reception of Greek art from the Middle Ages to the present Includes chapters on Chronology and Topography, as well as Workshops and Technology Includes four major sections: Forms, Times and Places; Contacts and Colonies; Images and Meanings; Greek Art: Ancient to Antique
Author : Emma Stafford,Judith Herrin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0754650316
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts (victory, democracy, war) all appear in human, usually female, form. Some have only fleeting incarnations, others become widely-recognised figures, and others again became so firmly established as deities in the imagination of the community that they received elements of cult associated with the Olympian gods. Though often seen as a feature of the Hellenistic period, personifications can be found in literature, art and cult from the Archaic period onwards; with the development of the art of allegory in the Hellenistic period, they came to acquire more 'intellectual' overtones; the use of allegory as an interpretative tool then enabled personifications to survive the advent of Christianity, to remain familiar figures in the art and literature of Late Antiquity and beyond. The twenty-one papers presented here cover personification in Greek literature, art and religion from its pre-Homeric origins to the Byzantine period. Classical Athens features prominently, but other areas of both mainland Greece and the Greek East are well represented. Issues which come under discussion include: problems of identification and definition; the question of gender; the status of personifications in relation to the gods; the significance of personification as a literary device; the uses and meanings of personification in different visual media; personification as a means of articulating place, time and worldly power. The papers reflect the enormous range of contexts in which personification occurs, indicating the ubiquity of the phenomenon in the ancient Greek world.
Author : Amy C. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004214521
Ancient Greek artists pioneered in the allegorical use of personifications of political ideas, events, places, institutions, and peoples in visual arts. This book surveys and interprets these personifications within the intellectual and political climate of the golden age of Athens.
Author : Emma Stafford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Goddesses, Greek
ISBN : UOM:39015049737847
Author : Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1972-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521096626
"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
Author : William A. P. Childs
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400890514
Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century. As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious devotion. Delving into formal and iconographic developments in sculpture and painting, Childs examines how the sensitive, expressive quality of these works seamlessly links the classical and Hellenistic periods, with no appreciable rupture in the continuous exploration of the human condition. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of “style as a concept of expression,” an issue that becomes more important given the increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. Childs also shows how the color and form of works suggested the unseen and revealed the profound character of individuals and the physical world.
Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3369 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9780195170726
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444334173
This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine
Author : Klaus Junker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521895828
A concise introduction highlighting theoretical and methodological issues and describing the strategies ancient artists used in order to instruct and persuade.
Author : Tyler Jo Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812252811
"An examination of the combined subjects of ancient Greek art and religion, dealing with festivals, performance, rites of passage, and the archaeology of death, to name a few examples, to explore the visual, material, and textual dimensions of ancient Greek religion"--
Author : Kristen Seaman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108490917
Explores how rhetorical techniques helped to produce innovations in art of the Hellenistic courts at Pergamon and Alexandria.
Author : Eric Orlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1091 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134625529
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions is the first comprehensive single-volume reference work offering authoritative coverage of ancient religions in the Mediterranean world. Chronologically, the volume’s scope extends from pre-historical antiquity in the third millennium B.C.E. through the rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E. An interdisciplinary approach draws out the common issues and elements between and among religious traditions in the Mediterranean basin. Key features of the volume include: Detailed maps of the Mediterranean World, ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, and the Hellenistic World A comprehensive timeline of major events, innovations, and individuals, divided by region to provide both a diachronic and pan-Mediterranean, synchronic view A broad geographical range including western Asia, northern Africa, and southern Europe This encyclopedia will serve as a key point of reference for all students and scholars interested in ancient Mediterranean culture and society.