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Author : Kathryn Topper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107011021
This book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present.
Author : Kevin F. Daly,Lee Ann Riccardi
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611486186
The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume is dedicated to John McK. Camp II, to acknowledge the extraordinary impact he has had on the field of Greek archaeology through his work in the Athenian Agora, as a scholar of ancient Greece, and as Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies. The contributors' work represents current research by the latest generation of scholars with ties to Athens. All of the contributors were students of Professor Camp in Greece, and their essays are dedicated to him in gratitude for his profound influence on their lives and careers.
Author : Morgan Janett Morgan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474404556
How did the Greek view of Persia and Persians change so radically in the archaic and classical Greek sources that they turned from noble warriors into peacock-loving cross-dressers with murderous mothers? This book looks at the development of a range of responses to the Achaemenids and their Empire. Through a study of ancient texts and material evidence from the archaic and classical periods, Janett Morgan investigates the historical, political and social factors that inspired and manipulated different identities for Persia and the Persians within Greece.Key Features:an interdisciplinary approach to investigating cultural contact and cultural exchange to explore the Greek response to Persiaoffers unique insights into the role of Greek social elites and political communities in creating different representations of the Achaemenid Persians and their EmpireKeywords
Author : Louise A. Gosbell
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161551321
The New Testament gospels feature numerous social exchanges between Jesus and people with various physical and sensory disabilities. Despite this, traditional biblical scholarship has not seen these people as agents in their own right but existing only to highlight the actions of Jesus as a miracle worker. In this study, Louise A. Gosbell uses disability as a lens through which to explore a number of these passages anew. Using the cultural model of disability as the theoretical basis, she explores the way that the gospel writers, as with other writers of the ancient world, used the language of disability as a means of understanding, organising, and interpreting the experiences of humanity. Her investigation highlights the ways in which the gospel writers reinforce and reflect, as well as subvert, culturally-driven constructions of disability in the ancient world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004314849
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the various modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. It covers diverse poetic genres in a range of contexts radiating outwards from the original performance(s) to encompass their broader cultural settings, the later reception of the poems, and finally also their understanding in modern scholarship. By focusing on the relationship between the visual and the verbal as well as the sensory and the mental, this volume raises a wide range of questions concerning human perception and cultural practices. As this collection of essays shows, Greek lyric poetry played a decisive role in the shaping of both.
Author : Hallie M. Franks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190863166
In the Greek Classical period, the symposium--the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation--was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter, symposiasts looked inward to the room's center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the spectre of Dionysos: the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. In The World Underfoot, Hallie M. Franks takes as her subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, she presents an innovative new interpretation of the mosaic imagery as an active contributor to the symposium as a metaphorical experience. Franks argues that the images on mosaic floors, combined with the ritualized circling of the wine cup and the physiological reaction to wine during the symposium, would have called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event--a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.
Author : Laurialan Reitzammer
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299308209
A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.
Author : John Oakley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782976646
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 : Nigel Spivey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226680552
A tale of tomb raiders, legal battles, suspicious death, and a 2,500-year-old vase: “Spivey proves a diligent detective and an engaging storyteller.” —Times Literary Supplement Perhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater depicts the body of Sarpedon, a hero of the Trojan War, being carried away to his homeland for burial. It was decorated some 2,500 years ago by Athenian artist Euphronios, and its subsequent history involves tomb raiding, intrigue, duplicity, litigation, international outrage, and possibly even homicide. How this came about is told by Nigel Spivey in a book that braids together the creation and adventures of this extraordinary object with an exploration of its abiding influence. Spivey takes us on a dramatic journey, beginning with the krater’s looting from an Etruscan tomb in 1971 and its acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, followed by a high-profile lawsuit over its status and its eventual return to Italy. He explains where, how, and why the vase was produced, retrieving what we know about the life and legend of Sarpedon. Spivey also pursues the figural motif of the slain Sarpedon portrayed on the vase and traces how this motif became a standard way of representing the dead and dying in Western art, especially during the Renaissance. Fascinating and informative, The Sarpedon Krater is a multifaceted introduction to the enduring influence of Greek art on the world. “The story of the Sarpedon Krater has been brilliantly told by Nigel Spivey, author and presenter of the BBC television series, How Art Made the World. Spivey traces the strange and wondrous journey of the Sarpedon Krater from ancient Athens in the sixth century B.C.to the present.” —Art Eyewitness
Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107110687
Demonstrates the centrality of chorality in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities.
Author : Andreas Serafim,Sophia Papaioannou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111338880
The volume offers an up-to-date and nuanced study of a multi-thematic topic, expressions of which can be found abundantly in ancient Greek and Latin literature: nonverbal behaviour, i.e., vocalics, kinesics, proxemics, haptics, and chronemics. The individual chapters explore texts from Homer to the 4th century AD to discuss aspects of nonverbal behaviour and how these are linked to, reflect upon, and are informed by general cultural frameworks in ancient Greece and Rome. Material sources are also examined to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the texts.
Author : Michális A. Tivérios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6188434238
Author : Sarah Olsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108485036
Explores the literary and cultural significance of the unruly solo dancer in the ancient Greek world.
Author : Thomas Biggs,Jessica Blum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498098
From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.
Author : Marek Wecowski
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191506895
In The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Broadly defined as a culture-oriented aristocratic banquet, the symposion—which literally means 'drinking together'—was a nocturnal wine party held by Greek aristocrats from Homer to Alexander the Great. Its distinctive feature was the crucial importance of diverse cultural competitions, including improvising convivial poetry, among the guests. Cultural skills and abilities were a prerequisite in order for one to be included in elite drinking circles, and, as such, the symposion served as a forum for the natural selection of Greek aristocracy.
