Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece : : Iconography and the Literary Arts / / Eva C. Keuls.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies 1990 - 1999
• VerfasserIn: Keuls, Eva C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leipzig : : B. G. Teubner, , [2011]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 87
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 p.)

Table of Contents

I-IV -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Key to special Abbreviations -- 1. Mystery Elements in Menander’s Dyscolus -- 2. The Ass in the Cult of Dionysus as a Symbol of Toil and Suffering -- 3. The Samia of Menander: An Interpretation of its Plot and Theme -- 4. Une Cible de la Satire: Le locus amoenus -- 5. Skiagraphia once again -- 6. Ethos in Menander -- 7. The happy Ending: Classical Tragedy and Apulian funerary Art -- 8. Aeschylus’ Niobe and Apulian funerary Symbolism -- 9. Rhetoric and visual Aids in Greece and Rome -- 10. The Hetaera and the Housewife: The Splitting of the female Psyche in Greek Art -- 11. The Brink of Death in Classical Greek Painting -- 12. Patriotic Propaganda and counter-cultural Protest in Athens as evidenced by Vase Painting -- 13. The gentle Satire of the Penthesileia Painter: A new Cup with Dionysiac Motifs -- 14. The social Position of Attic Vase Painters and the Birth of Caricature -- 15. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae and the Beazley Archive Project: Different Databases for the Study of Greek Iconography -- 16. Clytemnestra and Telephus in Greek Vase-Painting -- 17. The feminist View of the Past: A Comment on the ‘Decentering’ of the Poems of Ovid -- 18. Rembrandt’s Use of Classical Motifs -- 19. The Greek medical Texts and the sexual Ethos of ancient Athens -- 20. Scenes from Attic Tragedy on Vases found in Sicily and Lipari -- Bibliography of original Publications -- Figures