Word And Image In Ancient Greece / / Keith Rutter, Brian Sparkes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Rutter, Keith,; Sparkes, Brian,
• MitwirkendeR: Bardel, Ruth,; Goldhill, Simon,; Halliwell, Stephen,; Lemos, Irene,; March, Jenny,; Moignard, Elizabeth,; Osborne, Robin,; Palagia, Olga,; Snodgrass, Anthony,; Sparkes, Brian,; Stears, Karen,; Tanner, Jeremy,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies : ELS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The epic poets sang and recited the legends that served the Greeks as their historical past; lyric and elegiac poets sang songs of love and death and celebrated military and sporting success to the accompaniment of the lyre and pipe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• Part I. IMAGES IN EARLY GREECE
• 1. SONGS FOR HEROES: The Lack of Images in Early Greece
• 2. THE USES OF WRITING ON EARLY GREEK PAINTED POTTERY
• 3. TOOLS OF THE TRADE
• Part II. NARRATIVE AND IMAGE
• 4. MEANING AND NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES IN STATUE-BASES OF THE PHEIDIAN CIRCLE
• 5. SMALL WORLD: Pygmies and co.
• 6. PLATO AND PAINTING
• Part III. IMAGE(RY) AND THE STAGE
• 7. VASES AND TRAGIC DRAMA: Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' lost Tereus
• 8. EIDÔLA IN EPIC, TRAGEDY AND VASE-PAINTING
• 9. PLACING THEATRE IN THE HISTORY OF VISION
• 10. SOCIAL STRUCTURE, CULTURAL RATIONALISATION AND AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT IN CLASSICAL GREECE
• 11. LOSING THE PICTURE: Change and Continuity in Athenian Grave Monuments in the Fourth and Third Centuries BC
• 12. ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK TEMPLE SCULPTURE AND THE VIEWER
• PROGRAMME OF THE FIRST LEVENTIS GREEK CONFERENCE
• INDEX LOCORUM
• INDEX