Download or read book Divinities and Mythological Scenes in Greek Imperial Art written by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Numismatic Studies written by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glories of the Past written by Dietrich Von Bothmer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greek Gods in the East written by Ladislav Stančo and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the fate of the Greek mythological themes, divine and heroic figures, far in the East, primarily in the area of ancient Gandhara and Bactria (today in Uzbekistan). In alphabetic order, it covers primary iconographic schemes, which the art of these areas borrowed from the Hellenistic Mediterranean. We can compare how individual typical depictions of Greek deities changed and accommodated the taste and ideas of the local populace over the centuries. Aside from this, many of the originally Greek mythological characters, including their typical attributes, became, as this book clearly shows, the basis for images of various local Iranian, Indian and other deities.
Download or read book Guide to Research in Classical Art and Mythology written by Frances Dodds Van Keuren and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to use the research tools to unravel the intricate terminology of classification of antiquities is a formidable task. Van Keuren's work aims to enable students both to use these tools and to devise projects for their own research. After a major reference is presented, handbooks and monographs are successively identified in ways that suggest patterns of information. These patterns will allow students to formulate hypotheses to undertake original research. With use of the library collection, original questions can be asked and answered.
Download or read book Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture written by Zahra Newby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.
Download or read book The Ages of Homer written by Jane B. Carter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey have fascinated listeners and readers for over twenty-five centuries. In this volume of original essays, collected to honor the distinguished career of Emily T. Vermeule, thirty-four leading experts in Homeric studies and related fields provide up-to-date, multidisciplinary accounts of the most current issues in the study of Homer. The book is divided into three sections. The first section treats the Bronze Age setting of the poems (around 1200 B.C.), using archaeological evidence to reveal how poetic memory preserves, distorts, and invents the past. The second section explores the early Iron Age, in which the poems were written (c. 800-500 B.C.), using the strategies of comparative philology and mythology, literary theory, historical linguistics, anthropology, and iconography to determine how the poems took shape. The final section traces the use of Homer for literary and artistic inspiration by classical Greece and Rome.
Download or read book Art and Archaeology of Antiquity written by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last part of the four-volume series which aims to make available the most important studies of Cornelius Vermuele the former curator of Classical Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. This volume spans the years between 1985 and 1995 and includes a wide range of studies on broad themes and specific works of art, mainly in American collections. The many subjects include: the Hellenistic East, Nero's Golden House, Roman Ostia, funerary monuments, the end of ancient art in Egypt, Pheidias, the Severan dynasty, Troy and Germanicus Caesar. Contents: Preface Perceptions of the Trojan Wars in the Fenway: the Creeping Odysseus From the Pelopennesus to Pergamon and Beyond: The Weary Herakles of Lysippos Nero, Otho and the Golden House Roman Ostia. Sarcophagus Figural Pillars: From Asia Minor to Corinth to Rome Graeco-Roman Asia Minor to Renaissance Italy Greek Sculpture in Miniature from Roman Patrons Medallic and Marble Memorials: Mint to Mausoleum in Victorian America The End of Ancient Art in Egypt: Connections with the Holy Land The God Apollo, A Ceremonial Table with Griffins, and a Votive Basin Archaic Art, General Outline and Considerations, Historical , Geographic, and Aesthetic The Theodore Roosevelt Era: The Gold Coins and Major Sculptures of Augustus Saint-Gaudens Athena of the Parthenon by Pheidias: A Graeco-Roman Replica of the Roman Imperial Period Small Statues in the Greek World The Crusader (Lusignan) Kingdom of Cyprus: Echoes in the Fenway Roman Portraits in Egyptian Colored Stones Hermes, Protector of Shepherds at Salamis and Kourion From Tarentum to Troy and on to Tunisia: Homeric Survivals in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds Protesilaos: First to Fall at Troy and Hero in Northern Greece and Beyond The Rise of the Severan Dynasty in the East: Young Caracalla, about the Year 205, as Helios-Sol Matidia the Elder, a Pivotal Woman at the Height of Roman Imperial Power Greek Sculpture, Roman Sculpture and American Taste: The Mirror of Mount Auburn Neon Ilion and Ilium Novum: Kings, Soldiers, Citizens and Tourists at Classical Troy Greek and Roman Portraits and Near-Portraits in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Heavenly Twins: Castor and Pollux, Marching toward the Middle Ages A Portrait of Germanicus Caesar Index.
Download or read book The Art of Libation in Classical Athens written by Milette Gaifman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid--water, wine, milk, oil, or honey--was poured from a vessel such as a jug or a bowl onto the ground, an altar, or another surface. Libations were made on occasions like banquets, sacrifices, oath-taking, departures to war, and visitations to tombs, and their iconography provides essential insight into religious and social life in 5th-century BC Athens. Scenes depicting the ritual often involved beholders directly--a statue's gaze might establish the onlooker as a fellow participant, or painted vases could draw parallels between human practices and acts of gods or heroes. Beautifully illustrated with a broad range of examples, including the Caryatids at the Acropolis, the Parthenon Frieze, Attic red-figure pottery, and funerary sculpture, this important book demonstrates the power of Greek art to transcend the boundaries between visual representation and everyday experience.
Download or read book Beliefs Rituals and Symbols of Ancient Greece and Rome written by Dean Miller and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman mythology is forever linked for a myriad of reasons. Historians believe this could be because many of the Roman deities were adopted from the Greek. However, there are many that were not shared and are proudly only Roman, or only Greek. This comprehensive atlas presents dictionary entries about the major gods, heroes, and imaginary creatures of Greek and Roman mythology, along with information on some key historical figures and philosophical schools of thought. In this impressive book, the entries unfold through a pictorial and illustrated journey. Through a robust glossary, sidebars, and thematic introductions the social studies content of this fascinating subject becomes easily digestible, even for the most reluctant reader, while the further reading section inspires future research.
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Download or read book The Anatomy of Myth written by Michael W. Herren and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the methods of interpreting authoritative myths from the Presocratic philosophers to the Neoplatonists and their adoption by the Church Fathers.
Download or read book The Parthenon Enigma written by Joan Breton Connelly and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built in the fifth century b.c., the Parthenon has been venerated for more than two millennia as the West’s ultimate paragon of beauty and proportion. Since the Enlightenment, it has also come to represent our political ideals, the lavish temple to the goddess Athena serving as the model for our most hallowed civic architecture. But how much do the values of those who built the Parthenon truly correspond with our own? And apart from the significance with which we have invested it, what exactly did this marvel of human hands mean to those who made it? In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis—the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state—from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme. In particular, she probes the Parthenon’s legendary frieze: the 525-foot-long relief sculpture that originally encircled the upper reaches before it was partially destroyed by Venetian cannon fire (in the seventeenth century) and most of what remained was shipped off to Britain (in the nineteenth century) among the Elgin marbles. The frieze’s vast enigmatic procession—a dazzling pageant of cavalrymen and elders, musicians and maidens—has for more than two hundred years been thought to represent a scene of annual civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But thanks to a once-lost play by Euripides (the discovery of which, in the wrappings of a Hellenistic Egyptian mummy, is only one of this book’s intriguing adventures), Connelly has uncovered a long-buried meaning, a story of human sacrifice set during the city’s mythic founding. In a society startlingly preoccupied with cult ritual, this story was at the core of what it meant to be Athenian. Connelly reveals a world that beggars our popular notions of Athens as a city of staid philosophers, rationalists, and rhetoricians, a world in which our modern secular conception of democracy would have been simply incomprehensible. The Parthenon’s full significance has been obscured until now owing in no small part, Connelly argues, to the frieze’s dismemberment. And so her investigation concludes with a call to reunite the pieces, in order that what is perhaps the greatest single work of art surviving from antiquity may be viewed more nearly as its makers intended. Marshalling a breathtaking range of textual and visual evidence, full of fresh insights woven into a thrilling narrative that brings the distant past to life, The Parthenon Enigma is sure to become a landmark in our understanding of the civilization from which we claim cultural descent.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology written by Roger D. Woodard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-12 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written literature, from the epic poetry of 8th century BC to the mythographic catalogues of the early centuries AD. They examine the relationship between myth, art, religion and politics among the ancient Greeks and its reception and influence on later society from the Middle Ages to present day literature, feminism and cinema. This Companion volume's comprehensive coverage makes it ideal reading for students of Greek mythology and for anyone interested in the myths of the ancient Greeks and their impact on western tradition.
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Download or read book Numismatic Studies written by Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
