Isbn: 9780691035956 - the aesthetics of the greek banquet: images of wine and ritual (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. shelf wear. bumped edges. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Some fading of the DJ spine, else a fine copy. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Very faint shelfwear. Upper corners lightly bumped. Minor sunning to DJ.; In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B. C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Very faint shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]).; In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B. C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture.; 9.9 X 6.9 X 0.3 inches; 160 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Very faint shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]).; In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B. C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture.; 9.9 X 6.9 X 0.3 inches; 160 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Used-Very Good. y First English language edition. dj., octavo, 150 pp., illus.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First printing. 8vo. 150 pp. Orange cloth. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. A few dog-eared pages.Translated from the French by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Translated from the French by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak. First American printing. Near fine in a very good (sun faded along the spine) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 8vo. Red cloth. 1st American edition, translated from the French. 150pp. Numerous b&w illustrations.

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Good .Ships From Multiple Locations. book.

orig. cloth. 24x15cm, vii,150 pp., Rubberstamp to rear flyleaf. Contentsd: The Greek Experience of Wine; The Space of the Krater; Manipulations; Drinking Games; Reflections; Wine & the Wine-dark Sea; Song & Image; Epilogue: Drink to Me with Thine Eyes. A large removed-label mark to rear fixed flyleaf. Good. Textual illustrations. (illustratore).…