Art and Myth in Ancient Greece
by T.H. Carpenter (Author)
Series:World of Art
Format:Paperback / softback 312 pages, 297 Illustrations, color
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Edition:New Edition
ISBN:9780500204542
Published:18 Mar 2021
Classifications:Ancient Greece, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE
R eadership:General (US: Trade)
Weight:656g
Dimensions:152 x 210 x 22 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
For sale in: All countries
Player3Description
The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources - vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone - often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or offer alternative, unfamiliar tellings. In some cases visual art provides our only evidence, as there is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of such important stories as the Fall of Troy, or Theseus and the Minotaur.
T. H. Carpenters book is the first comprehensive, scholarly yet succinct survey of myth as it appears in Greek art.
Copiously illustrated, it is an essential reference work for everybody interested in the art, drama, poetry or religion of ancient Greece. With this handbook as a guide, readers will be able to identify scenes from myth across the full breadth of archaic and classical Greek art.
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