Art and myth in ancient Greece : a handbook / Thomas H. Carpenter.
By: Carpenter, Thomas H [author]
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BookSeries: World of art: Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0500202362 (paperback); 9780500202364 (paperback).Subject(s): Mythology, Greek, in art | Art, GreekDDC classification: 709.38 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.38 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00193967 | ||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the treatment of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion.
There is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of of stories as important as the fall of Troy or Theseus and the Minotaur. It is to visual sources that we have to turn for much of our knowledge of the myths. Vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and and stone often pre-date reference to the myths in literature or offer alternative versions to the familiar accounts; always they throw light on the way the Greeks understood the stories of gods and heroes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and indexes.
A demonstration of method: the return of Hephaistos; Troilos and Achilles -- Portraits of the gods -- The ascendancy of the Olympians -- Perseus; Bellerophon -- Herakles -- Theseus -- Argonauts; Calydonian boar hunt -- The Trojan War -- The aftermath of the war.