Word and Image in Ancient Greece - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748614052 ISBN 13: 9780748614059

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The epic poets sang and recited the legends that served the Greeks as their historical past; lyric and elegiac poets sang songs of love and death and celebrated military and sporting success to the accompaniment of the lyre and pipes; the art of rhetoric was a vital ingredient in speeches in the assembly and the law courts; in tragedies and comedies actors spoke to audiences of thousands. Of equal importance to the Greeks were the images with which they were always surrounded - civic and religious monuments, statuary, architectural decoration, and the scenes of myth, fantasy and everyday life with which their vases and vessels were painted and decorated.This volume of new work by leading scholars explores the ways in which these two central aspects of Greek culture interact, and throws new light on their many and related functions. The subjects include the creation of the Greek myths during the early centuries of the first millenniu

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Keith Rutter is Honorary Fellow & Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the coinage and history of South Italy and Sicily in the Greek period. His publications include Campanian Coinages 475-380 BC (1979) and Greek Coinages of Southern Italy and Sicily (1997). He has been responsible for steering the Italian volume of the third edition of Historia Numorum towards publication (2001) by the British Museum Press.

Brian A. Sparkes is Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

N. Keith Rutter is Honorary Fellow & Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Edinburgh Brian Sparkes is Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Southampton

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748614052
• ISBN 13: 9780748614059
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 258
• Redattore: Rutter N. K., Sparkes Brian A., Rutter Keith N.
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