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Author : Poul Pedersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987176045
Author : Poul Pedersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019199291
Author : Joan Breton Connelly
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385350501
Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon’s full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part, Connelly argues, to the frieze’s dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces, in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent.
Author : Jenifer Neils
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521820936
Provides an overview of a classical monument interjected with the discoveries of modern scholarship.
Author : Margaret M. Miles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118327616
A Companion to Greek Architecture provides an expansive overview of the topic, including design, engineering, and construction as well as theory, reception, and lasting impact. Covers both sacred and secular structures and complexes, with particular attention to architectural decoration, such as sculpture, interior design, floor mosaics, and wall painting Makes use of new research from computer-driven technologies, the study of inscriptions and archaeological evidence, and recently excavated buildings Brings together original scholarship from an esteemed group of archaeologists and art historians Presents the most up-to-date English language coverage of Greek architecture in several decades while also sketching out important areas and structures in need of further research
Author : Charles Warren Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Greece
ISBN : IND:30000135908733
Author : Ahmed M. Bassioni
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803272405
This study discusses the evolution of the Corinthian capital in Antiquity and how this centred around Alexandria rather than Mainland Greece. It tackles the rise of the Corinthian capital in Classical Greece and its adaptation on in Hellenistic Alexandria.
Author : Ian Jenkins,Ian Dennis Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674023889
From Athens and Arcadia on one side of the Aegean Sea and from Ionia, Lycia, and Karia on the other, this book brings together some of the great monuments of classical antiquity--among them two of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the later temple of Artemis at Ephesos and the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos. With 250 photographs and specially commissioned line drawings, the book comprises a monumental narrative of the art and architecture that gave form, direction, and meaning to much of Western culture.
Author : Leonhard Schmitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BDM:13020100016054
Author : R. A. Cordingley
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486795744
Complete reference covers Greek, Roman, and Renaissance periods. Eighty black-and-white plates by Pugin and others depict details from the Colosseum, Parthenon, Pantheon, and other buildings, as well as works by Vitruvius, Palladio, Lescot, and others.
Author : Ralf Von den Hoff
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782973072
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda Westervelt and Lorenz Winkler-Horacek. The contents are divided into four sections I. Structure and Ornament; II. Technique and Agency; III. Myth and Narrative and IV. Diffusion and Influence. Highlights include Robin Osbornes discussion of What you can do with a chariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; Ralf von den Hoffs consideration of the Athenian treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwabs presentation of New evidence for Parthenon east metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety of issues in architectural sculpture but also present a range of case studies from all over the Greek world. The result is an important collection of current research.
Author : Eva Mortensen,Birte Poulsen
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785708398
Cityscapes consist of houses, streets, civic buildings, sanctuaries, tombs, monuments, and inscriptions created by multiple generations of citizens and foreigners with an interest in the city; they are interpreted and reinterpreted as expressions of past lives, changing relations of power, memories, and various identities. The present volume publishes 25 contributions written by scholars specializing in the history and archaeology of western Asia Minor. New and well-known material – literary, epigraphical, numismatic, and archaeological – is presented and analyzed through the twin lenses of memory and identity. The contributions cover more than 1000 years of cultural diversity during changing political systems, from the Lydian and Persian hegemony in the Archaic period through Athenian supremacy and Persian satrapal rule in the Classical period, then autocratic kingship in Hellenistic times until, finally, more than half a millennium of Roman rule. Identities are voiced through several media and visible at many levels of the ancient societies. So are the places of memory – the Lieux de Mémoire – and the studies presented here provide new insights into how human beings chose, deliberately or subconsciously, to commemorate their past and their ancestors, and how identity was displayed and expressed under shifting political rule.
Author : Francis C. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Art
ISBN : NYPL:33433081858346
Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HNEUU8
Author : Richard Glazier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486421481
Exceptionally comprehensive, easy-to-use guide surveys the evolution of historic ornament in architecture and the applied arts-from primitive ornaments of Oceania, Egypt, and Assyria to a Gothic doorway in Amiens, the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, and a classic early-nineteenth-century sofa by Thomas Hope. Hundreds of the author's line illustrations depict designs typical of many periods of style. Unabridged reprint of the 6th edition (1948) of A Manual of Historic Ornament, originally published in 1899 by B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London. Over 700 b/w illustrations. 16 plates of photographs.
