Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook (World of Art) - Softcover

Carpenter, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500202362 ISBN 13: 9780500202364

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

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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Reseña del editor:

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.

Contraportada:

Here is the first comprehensive survey of the treatment of myth by Greek artists. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in the art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion of ancient Greece.

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• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0500202362
• ISBN 13: 9780500202364
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256