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Greek Art
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Poetry, Theory, Praxis. The Social Life of Myth, Word and Image in Ancient Greece: Essays in Honour of William J. Slater
edited by Eric Csapo and Margaret C Miller
A Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar, William J Slater, this volume looks at the social life of theories, artifacts, and poems in ancient Greece. The central focus of the collection is Greek theatre, but essays on such typically Slaterian subjects as ancient scholarship, lyric poetry, art, and inscriptions are also included. From a literary search for the elusive Pelasgians, an iconographic analysis of illustrations of Athenian ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$90.00, Our Price US$19.98
Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II
edited by John H. Oakley and Olga Palagia
This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also ...
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 25, The British Museum Fascicule 11: Greek Geometric Pottery
by J.N. Coldstream
The British Museum's holding of Greek Geometric pottery comprises 200 items, covering the period from the 10th to the 7th century BC. Most of these pieces have never been published before. The bulk of the collection - 123 pieces - is Attic, but eleven other regional styles are also represented. These include not only mainland Greek fabrics such as Argive, Boeotian, Corinthian and Laconian, but also the island fabrics of the Cyclades and Crete, as ...
Hardback. Price US$150.00
Greek art in view: Essays in honour of Brain Sparkes
edited by Simon Keay
This book celebrates the career of Brian Sparkes, whose work in Classical archaeology has covered many diverse areas such as art, pottery, and theatre. Such interdisciplinary work is at the core of this book, which seeks to explore the relationship between different kinds of text and material culture and the ways in which these can be interpreted. Chapters include studies on the relationship between vase painting and sculpture (Karim ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$70.00, Our Price US$19.98
The Greeks Beyond the Aegean: From Marseilles to Bactria
edited by Vassos Karageorghis
There are some phenomena in the history of the world, which have left an everlasting impact on the development of civilization, beneficial or otherwise. Today, when we say the words democracy, philosophy, ideology, theatre, music, we recall one of the above phenomena, the Greek heritage of Europe and the whole world. In the realm of philosophical thought, science, literature, art and architecture the Greeks have left their mark. Greek heritage, ...
The Lion of Knidos
by Ian Jenkins
Carved from the same marble as that used to build the Parthenon, this larger-than-life sculpture was discovered by chance by a young archaeologist walking the cliffs on the coast of western Turkey near the ancient city of Knidos. This concise illustrated book unfolds the story of that discovery and of Knidos in the days of its greatness, and tells how the pioneering archaeologists of 150 years ago excavated and explored its site, discovering many ...
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Greek Offerings: Essays on Greek Art in honour of John Boardman
edited by Olga Palagia
This collection of papers on Greek art by pupils and friends is offered to John Boardman on his seventieth birthday. Many of the objects discussed here in his honour are published for the first time. Contents include: The Hesiodic myth of the five races and the tolerance of plurality in Greek mythology (Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood); A Minoan Ringstone from the Idaean Cave (Yannis Sakellarakis); A Mycenaean Sealstone from Gla ...
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Griechische Vasenmalerei: Eine Einführung
by Thomas Mannack
German Description:Thomas Mannack gibt mit dieser Einführung einen vollständigen Überblick über die bemalte Keramik Griechenlands von den Anfängen im 1. Jt. v. Chr. bis zu ihrem Ende um 300 v. Chr. Übersichtlich und leicht verständlich werden die wichtigsten Formen und Stile fi gurenverzierter Keramik sowie die Töpfer, Maler und Werkstätten vorgestellt. Der Autor erklärt die verschiedenen ...
Hardback. Price US$37.00
Der tanzende Satyr von Mazara del Vallo und Praxiteles
by Bernard Andreae
Even though only a fragment, the bronze statue of a satyr in ecstatic dance is one of the most admired works of Greek art. Found in 1998 stuck in the net of an Italian fishing boat fishing between Sicily and Tunisia, the bronze was retrieved from the 480 meter deep sea floor and carefully restored. However, it remains controversial in archaeological research. Bernard Andreae, former director of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome until ...
Paperback. Price US$24.00
Malerei für die Ewigkeit: Die Gräber von Paestum
by Bernard Andreae
Paestum ist wegen seiner griechischen Tempel ein magischer Anziehungspunkt für Italienreisende. Schon Goethe nahm von dort »die herrlichste Idee nordwärts mit«. Was aber den wenigsten bekannt ist: Paestum besitzt in seinen Gräbern auch den wohl grössten Schatz klassischer antiker Malerei, der nun erstmals umfassend in einer Ausstellung gewürdigt wird.
In Paestum, einer der nördlichsten griechischen ...
Hardback. Price US$53.00
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