Download or read book Imports and Immigrants written by Gail L. Hoffman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassessment of artistic relationships between ancient Greece and other regions of the Aegean basin

Download or read book The Laws of Ancient Crete written by Michael Gagarin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions, many of which are fragmentary and relatively unknown, are accompanied by an English translation and also two commentaries; one focused on epigraphical and linguistic issues, and the other, requiring no knowledge of Greek, focused on legal and historical issues. The texts are preceded by a substantial introduction, which surveys the geography, history, writing habits, social and political structure, economy, religion, and law of Crete in this period.

Download or read book Archaeological Museum of Heraklion written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Herakleion Museum written by J. A. Sakellarakis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the remote Neolithic period the soil of Crete has lovingly protected priceless treasures, which have been, and are continually being brought to light by archaeological excavations.These masterpieces of Cretan, and especially of Minoan civilization, are now displayed in the Herakleion Museum, and form a collection of unique value.The publication of the Guide to the Herakleion Museum by Ekdotike Athenon is intended to help the visitor to become acquainted with the treasures of Cretan art in a scientific and methodical way, and, through the exhibits, to trace the evolution of the civilization of the island throughout the many centuries of its history.The structure and composition of the book has been designed with these aims in mind, and the relevant photographs are set out alongside the text. The visitor thus has the opportunity to come into contact, room by room, with the great artistic achievements of Minoan civilization, and to form an idea of the character of its unique cultural heritage.

Download or read book Lady of the Beasts written by Buffie Johnson and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid and provocative images of the Great Goddess throughout the centuries and from around the world--an outstanding gift for the art collector, history enthusiast, or anyone interested in women's spirituality. Three 8-page color inserts, 196 photos, 65 drawings.

Download or read book Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age written by Sarah C. Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.

Download or read book The Archaeological Museum of Herakleion written by Archaiologikon Mouseion Hērakleiou and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ancient Greece written by Peter Green and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1973 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cambridge Ancient History written by Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 2 provides illustrations to accompany v. 5-6 of the Cambridge Ancient History, which focuses on Greece and the Mediterranean world of the fourth and fifth centuries, B.C.; v. 3 provides illustrations to accompany v. 7-8 of the Cambridge Ancient History, which focuses on the areas conquered by Alexander the Great and by Rome; v. 4 focuse upon the Roman Empire.

Download or read book Greek Sculpture written by Mark D. Fullerton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD. Compares the evolution of Greek sculpture over the centuries to works of contemporaneous Mediterranean civilizations Emphasizes looking closely at the stylistic features of Greek sculpture, illustrating these observations where possible with original works rather than copies Places the remarkable progress of stylistic changes that took place in Greek sculpture within a broader social and historical context Facilitates an understanding of why Greek monuments look the way they do and what ideas they were capable of expressing Focuses on the most recent interpretations of Greek sculptural works while considering the fragile and fragmentary evidence uncovered

Download or read book A Guide to the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Guide to the Archaeological Museum of Heraclion written by Nikolaos Platōn and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art of Ancient India and the Aegean written by A.S. Bhalla and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines similarities and differences between art in ancient Indian (Indus) civilizations and that of the Aegean civilizations. The comparison raises questions about possible cross-cultural influences, which became more significant following Alexander’s invasion and the subsequent adaptation of Indian art under the Indo-Greek kingdoms.

Download or read book Lost Worlds written by John Howe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover has a circular, plastic-covered opening.

Download or read book The Atlas of Early Man written by Jacquetta Hawkes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys concurrent developments of ancient history in various parts of the world, covering the time from 35,000 B.C. to 500 A. D.

Download or read book The Experience of Poetry written by Derek Attridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the performance of poetry from late Antiquity to the Renaissance that explores the role and importance of poetry in western culture.

Download or read book From Mycenae to Homer written by T. B. L. Webster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1958, aims to describe Greek art and poetry within this ambiguous period of ancient history (often referred to as the Greek ‘Dark Ages’), and to explore the possibilities of learning about Mycenaean civilisation from its own documents and not only from archaeology. Specifically, Webster utilises Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B in 1952 – which proved that Greek was spoken in the Mycenaean world – to determine the general contours of aesthetic development from Mycenae to the time of the written composition of the Homeric epics. Because they record Mycenaean civilisation in Mycenaean terminology, while Homer was writing in Ionian Greek at the beginning of the polis civilisation, they show how much in Homer is in fact Mycenaean. Further, where it is clear that these Mycenaean elements cannot have survived until Homer’s time, they tell us something about the poetry which connected the two.