Screen LibraryApproaching the ancient artifact : representation, narrative, and function /
This book offers a fresh and timely perspectiveon the study of ancient art and archaeology. Through a series of essays, the volume explores the links between text and image and offers innovative readings of narrative scenes on pottery and sculpture. Topics treated include gender in antiquity, myth a...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This book offers a fresh and timely perspectiveon the study of ancient art and archaeology. Through a series of essays, the volume explores the links between text and image and offers innovative readings of narrative scenes on pottery and sculpture. Topics treated include gender in antiquity, myth and art, and Athenian ritual and politics. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of classical art and archaeology. |
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1 online resource(xxv,590pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110308815（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | N72 |
| CLC: | J0-05 |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Foreword -- H. Alan Shapiro: Bibliography -- Helen Re-Claimed, Troy Re-Visited: Scenes of Troy in Archaic Greek Art / Polyxena s Dropped Hydria: The Epic Cycle and the Iconography of Gravity in Athenian Vase Painting / Myth into Art: A Black-figure Column Krater from Castle Ashby at the University of Virginia / The Serpent in the Garden: Herakles, Ladon, and the Hydra / Reflections on Triton / Herakles and Geras in Etruria / Theseus and Aithra! A Forgotten Fragment and an Old Problem / Theseus and Periphetes by the Sabouroff Painter? / Dressing to Hunt. Some Remarks on the Calyx Krater from the So-called House of C. Julius Polybius in Pompei / Phrixos Self-sacrifice and his "Euphemia" / Philoktetes in Brauron (Attica) and Volterra (Etruria) / The Tombs of Amazons / The Wretchedness of Old Kings / Athenian State Monuments for the War Dead: Evidence from a Loutrophoros / Women as Gift Givers and Gift Producers in Ancient Athenian Funerary Ritual / Volgei nescia: On the Paradox of Praising Women s Invisibility / Reduced Myths: Roman Ash Chests with Mythological Scenes / Roman Sarcophagi in the Toledo Museum of Art / Bathing in the Sanctuaries of Asklepios and Apollo Maleatas at Epidauros / The Three Graces at the Panathenaia / Hermes and the Athenian Acropolis: Hermes Enagonios (?) on a Red-figure Miniature Amphora of Panathenaic Shape by the Bulas Group / on the Athenian Acropolis and in the Sanctuary of the Nymph (600 560 BCE): The Case of the Skyphoi / The Artificial Sculptural Image of Dionysos in Athenian Vase Painting and the Mythological Discourse of Early Greek Life / Satyrs as Women and Maenads as Men: Transvestites and Transgression in Dionysian Worship / "To Dream the Impossible Dream" / Hare and the Dog: Eros Tamed / A Type Courting Scene for Alan: The Spitzer Amphora at Bryn Mawr College / A Lazy Afternoon / A Matter of Style/Why Style Matters: A Birth of Athena Revisited / Story and Status: The Fran ois Vase and the Krater from Vix / A Frame for Names: The Case of the Hydria Louvre F 28 / Composition and Narrative on Skyphoi of the Penelope Painter / Where Should We Place the Krater? An Optimistic Reconstruction of the Vessel s Visibility during the Symposion / Manipulating Mastoi: The Female Breast in the Sympotic Setting / Laconian Wine / Arion the Methymnian and Dionysos Methymnaios: Myth and Cult in Herodotus Histories / The Mozia Charioteer: A Revision / An Ancient Plaster Cast in New York: A Ptolemaic Syncretistic Goddess / The Non-Human Paradox: Being Political in Aristotle s Zoology / Are We Rome? / Bibliography -- Index -- Color Plates. |