Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture

by: Goldhill, S. Osborne, R.

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Art and text in ancient Greek culture
Authors:Simon Goldhill, Robin Osborne

These specially commissioned essays offer new and exciting perspectives on the interrelationships between verbal and visual signs in ancient Greek culture. The first section of the book focuses on fifth-century culture, examining the use that painters of pots make of writing, the ways in which images on pots can be read systematically, the ways in which the framing of architectural sculpture determines interpretation, and the exploitation of set-piece descriptions (ecphrases) in the theatre. The second section turns to Hellenistic culture, with essays on the poetic exploitation of riddling images, on the creation of rival worlds in travel literature, and on the imaginary museum, which explore a world self-conscious about the conditions of viewing at that time. Together, these essays offer a radical, fresh look at the ancient culture of viewing

Contents:
Introduction : programmatics and polemics / Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne
Epiktetos egraphsen : the writing on the cup / François Lissarrague
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori : the imagery of heroic immortality on Athenian painted vases / Herbert Hoffmann
Framing the centaur : reading fifth-century architectural sculpture / Robin Osborne
Timeo Danaos : Amazons in early Greek art and pottery / John Henderson
The artful eye : vision, ecphrasis and spectacle in Euripidean theatre / Froma Zeitlin
The naive and knowing eye : ecphrasis and the culture of viewing in the Hellenistic world / Simon Goldhill
From the pyramids to Pausanias and Piglet : monuments, travel and writing / John Elsner
Philostratus and the imaginary museum / Norman Bryson

Series:
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism

xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture

by: Goldhill, S. Osborne, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780521411851 / 978-0-521-41185-1
• ISBN-03: 0521411858 / 0-521-41185-8
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994

Price: 115,00 EURO

1 copy in stock