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

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Carpenter, Thomas H.

 
9780500202364: Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: A Handbook (World of Art)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500202362 ISBN 13: 9780500202364
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

T. H. Carpenter is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Ohio University where he has taught since 1997. He was awarded a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and after earning his D.Phil. in classical archaeology at Oxford, he worked for four years as chief researcher at the Beazley Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Professor Carpenter’s other books include Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-century Athens and Mythology, Greek and Roman.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500202362
ISBN 13 
9780500202364
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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