Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art) /anglais - Couverture souple

Carpenter, Thomas H

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500202362 ISBN 13 : 9780500202364

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0500202362
• ISBN 13: 9780500202364
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible