Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook - Brossura

Carpenter, Thomas H.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0500202362 ISBN 13: 9780500202364

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 1991

Riassunto

Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the treatment of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion.There is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of of stories as important as the fall of Troy or Theseus and the Minotaur. It is to visual sources that we have to turn for much of our knowledge of the myths. Vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and and stone often pre-date reference to the myths in literature or offer alternative versions to the familiar accounts; always they throw light on the way the Greeks understood the stories of gods and heroes.

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Series; World of art. Physical description; 256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 247-249. - Includes index. Summary; The Greek myths are so much a part of our visual and literary culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. The most familiar sources are the great works of Homer or the Greek dramatists but they were addressing an audience intimately familiar with the stories and so are often allusive and incomplete. There is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of stories as important as the fall of Troy or Theseus, and the Minotaur, and it is to the visual sources that we have to turn to much of our knowledge of the myths. Subjects; Art and mythology. Mythology, Greek, in art. Vase-painting - Greek.Art - Greece. Art, Greek. Mythology, Greek. Vase-paintings, Greek. Art, Greek - Themes, motives. Greece - Antiquities. Visual arts. Greece. Mythology - Ancient - Classical. Mythology - Depictions. Greece - Art - Ancient. The Arts. Ancient Greece. History / Ancient / Greece. Art / History / Ancient & Classical. Mythology, Greek ; Art, Greek. Genre; Illustrated.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0500202362
• ISBN 13: 9780500202364
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256