Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art / / Sarah P. Morris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Morris, Sarah P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (483 p.) :; 63 halftones 2 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE: A Reader's Guide and an Author's Apologia --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; DAIDALOS AND THE LEVANT PART I. Daidalos and Daidala in Greek Poetry --; CHAPTER 1. Craft and Craftsmen in Epic Poetry --; CHAPTER 2. Daidala in Archaic Poetry and Ritual --; CHAPTER 3. Daidala in Classical and European Literature --; PART II. Daidalos and Kadmos --; CHAPTER 4. Da-da-re-jo and Kothar-wa-Hasis: From Ugarit to the Aege --; CHAPTER 5. From Bronze to Iron: Greece and Its Oriental Culture --; CHAPTER 6. Daidalos in Crete --; CHAPTER 7. Daidalos in Sicily: Greeks and Phoenicians in the West --; DAIDALOS AND ATHENS PART III. The Reincarnation of Daidalos --; CHAPTER 8. Magic and Sculpture --; CHAPTER 9. The "Daedalic" Style --; CHAPTER 10. Daidalos in Athens: From the Throne of Xerxes to the Diphros of Daidalos --; PART IV. From Daidalos to Theseus --; CHAPTER 11. The Great Transformation: History into Art --; CHAPTER 12. The Invention of Athens: History into Myth --; CHAPTER 13. "Greeks" and "Barbarians": The Origins of Orientalism --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES --; GENERAL INDEX --; ILLUSTRATIONS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691241944; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691241944?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sarah P. Morris.

In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.