Myth, Ethos and Actuality : Official Art in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens

by: Castriota, D.

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Myth, ethos, and actuality : official art in fifth-century B.C. Athens

Author: David Castriota

Summary:5th-century Athenian artists depicted their defeated enemies, the Persians, as barbaric mythic antagonists, while representing themselves as mythical heroes. Castriota interprets these works as vehicles of an official ideology, celebrating and justifying the present in terms of the past.

Series:
Wisconsin studies in classics

xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Mythic Analogue and the Celebration of the Persian Wars Ethos and Antithesis in the Greek View of the Persian Wars Hybris and Sophrosyne The Defeat of Persia in Drama and History: The Ethical Rationale Ethos in the Marathon Painting Ethos and Antithesis in the Kimonian Monuments The Theseion The Centauromachy The Amazonomachy Theseus and the Ring of Minos The Shrine of the Warlike Athena at Plataia The Seven Against Thebes The Slaying of the Suitors The Stoa Poikile: Persians, Amazons, and Trojans The Knidian Lesche at Delphi Polygnotos and the Transformation of the Trojan Theme in the Knidian Lesche and the Stoa Poikile The Greek Ethos and the Iliupersis The Image of the Trojans The Image of the Greeks Ethos and Antithesis in the Nekyia Greeks and Trojans in the Stoa Poikile Ethos, Pathos, and Actuality The Persian Wars and the Sculptures of the Parthenon The Parthenon as a Victory Monument The East Metopes: The Gigantomachy The West Metopes: The Amazonomachy The South Metopes: The Centauromachy The North Metopes: The Iliupersis Epilogue: The Iliupersis After Polygnotos and Pheidias The Parthenon Frieze, Persia, and the Athenian Empire The Frieze and the Ethics of Imperialism Archaic Greek Precedents for the Parthenon Frieze The Frieze, the Allies, and the East Greek Traditions of Architectural Sculpture Appendix: Bakchylides' First Dithyramb, Ode XV (14): "The Sons of Antenor The Demand for the Return of Helen" Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Myth, Ethos and Actuality : Official Art in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens

by: Castriota, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780299133542 / 978-0-299-13354-2
• ISBN-03: 0299133540 / 0-299-13354-0
• The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1992

Price: 43,00 EURO

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