Approaching the Ancient Artifact (eBook)

Representation, Narrative, and Function

Amalia Avramidou, Denise Demetriou (Herausgeber)

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2014
615 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-038292-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a fresh and timely perspectiveon the study of ancient art and archaeology. Through a series of essays, the volume explores the links between text and image and offers innovative readings of narrative scenes on pottery and sculpture. Topics treated include gender in antiquity, myth and art, and Athenian ritual and politics. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of classical art and archaeology.

Amalia Avramidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Denise Demetriou, Michigan State University, East Lansing,USA.

Autor

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Amalia Avramidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Denise Demetriou, Michigan State University, East Lansing,USA.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements 5
Contributors 11
Abbreviations 15
Foreword 17
H. Alan Shapiro: Bibliography 19
Myth into Art 27
Helen Re-Claimed, Troy Re-Visited: Scenes of Troy in Archaic Greek Art 29
Polyxena’s Dropped Hydria: The Epic Cycle and the Iconography of Gravity in Athenian Vase Painting 41
Myth into Art: A Black-figure Column Krater from Castle Ashby at the University of Virginia 57
The Serpent in the Garden: Herakles, Ladon, and the Hydra 69
Reflections on Triton 79
Herakles and Geras in Etruria 91
Theseus and Aithra! A Forgotten Fragment and an Old Problem 95
Theseus and Periphetes by the Sabouroff Painter? 103
Dressing to Hunt. Some Remarks on the Calyx Krater from the So-called House of C. Julius Polybius in Pompeii 117
Phrixos’ Self-sacrifice and his “Euphemia” 131
Philoktetes in Brauron (Attica) and Volterra (Etruria) 143
The Tombs of Amazons 153
Iconography of Mourning 165
The Wretchedness of Old Kings 167
Athenian State Monuments for the War Dead: Evidence from a Loutrophoros 179
Women as Gift Givers and Gift Producers in Ancient Athenian Funerary Ritual 187
Volgei nescia: On the Paradox of Praising Women’s Invisibility 201
Reduced Myths: Roman Ash Chests with Mythological Scenes 211
Roman Sarcophagi in the Toledo Museum of Art 223
Art and Cult 235
Bathing in the Sanctuaries of Asklepios and Apollo Maleatas at Epidauros 237
The Three Graces at the Panathenaia 259
Hermes and the Athenian Acropolis: Hermes Enagonios (?) on a Red-figure Miniature Amphora of Panathenaic Shape by the Bulas Group 269
??a??µata on the Athenian Acropolis and in the Sanctuary of the Nymph (600–560 BCE): The Case of the Skyphoi 281
The Artificial Sculptural Image of Dionysos in Athenian Vase Painting and the Mythological Discourse of Early Greek Life 293
Satyrs as Women and Maenads as Men: Transvestites and Transgression in Dionysian Worship 307
Courtship Scenes 321
“To Dream the Impossible Dream” 323
Hare and the Dog: Eros Tamed 337
A Type ? Courting Scene for Alan: The Spitzer Amphora at Bryn Mawr College 345
A Lazy Afternoon 361
Narrative Strategies 365
A Matter of Style/Why Style Matters: A Birth of Athena Revisited 367
Story and Status: The François Vase and the Krater from Vix 375
A Frame for Names: The Case of the Hydria Louvre F 287 389
Composition and Narrative on Skyphoi of the Penelope Painter 399
Where Should We Place the Krater? An Optimistic Reconstruction of the Vessel’s Visibility during the Symposion 411
Manipulating Mastoi: The Female Breast in the Sympotic Setting 425
Laconian Wine 439
Arion the Methymnian and Dionysos Methymnaios: Myth and Cult in Herodotus’ Histories 451
The Mozia Charioteer: A Revision 461
An Ancient Plaster Cast in New York: A Ptolemaic Syncretistic Goddess 475
The Non-Human Paradox: Being Political in Aristotle’s Zoology 481
Are We Rome? 493
Bibliography 509
Index 565
Color Plates 595

Rezensionen

lt;P>"A Festschrift is a special type of publication. A good one not only commemorates an honoree’s career in a way that draws his/her colleagues into a circle of scholarship and brings joy to the honoree, but also provides a compendium of the state of the discipline and points the way toward future work. Approaching the Ancient Artifact does all of these things and is a worthy celebration of a more-than-worthy scholar."
Sheramy D. Bundrick in: BMCR 2015.03.12

" [...] the volume offers new perspectives and interesting variations on some extraordinarily familiar subjects related to ancient myth, cult, and daily life [...] is an outstanding resource and highly recommended for classicists and ancient art historians."
Renee M. Gondek in: Religious Studies Review 43/4 (2017), 395

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 150 b/w and 53 col. ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Classical Art • Gender • Gender /Archäologie • Greek religion • Griechenland /Antike Religion • Iconography • Ikonographie
• ISBN-10: 3-11-038292-X / 311038292X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-038292-1 / 9783110382921