The Tyrant-slayers of Ancient Athens
The Tyrant-slayers of Ancient Athens

Author: Vincent Azoulay

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190663561

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This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. By recreating the eventful life of these statues, from their birth to their disappearance, Vincent Azoulay reveals that they were much more than a simple reflection: an acting symbol that models and makes history.

Art in Athens During the Peloponnesian War
Art in Athens During the Peloponnesian War

Author: Olga Palagia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-06

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0521849330

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This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produced. During this period, battle scenes dominated much of the monumental art, while large numbers of memorials to the war dead were erected. The temple of Athena Nike, built to celebrate Athenian victories in the first part of the war, carries a rich sculptural program illustrating military victories. For the first time, the arts in Athens expressed an interest in the afterlife, with many sculptured dedications to Demeter and Kore, who promised initiates special privileges in the underworld. Not surprisingly, there were also dedications to healer gods. After the Sicilian disaster, a retrospective tendency can be noted in both art and politics, which provided reassurance in a time of crisis. Bringing together essays by an international team of art historians and historians, this is the first book to focus on the new themes and new kinds of art introduced in Athens as a result of the thirty-year war.

The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
The Archaeology of Ancient Greece

Author: James Whitley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-10-04

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780521627337

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A synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods.

Archaic Greek Equestrian Sculpture
Archaic Greek Equestrian Sculpture

Author: Mary Ann Eaverly

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780472103515

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This welcome volume examines the use and meaning of equestrian statues in Archaic Greece, relying not only on a full catalog of the sculptures but also on the rich comparative material in the literary and archaeological remains. Previous works have either crowded this important material into a large study of all equestrian statues everywhere or else have examined only those few that belong to the Athenian Acropolis. It has therefore been difficult to characterize the style and distribution of this sculpture, let alone examine them within their cultural milieu. Mary Ann Eaverly carries out precisely these important tasks. The first half of the volume identifies the unique characteristics of equestrian statues as a type apart from other Archaic sculpture. The author places the sculptures within their historical and cultural context and considers critical factors such as cultic activity, aristocratic symbolism, and the influence of Peisistratos. The second half of the volume is a catalog that discusses all the extant pieces individually. Archaic Greek Equestrian Sculpture will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek sculpture, the Greek artistic heritage, and the complex history of Archaic Greece.

Approaching the Ancient Artifact
Approaching the Ancient Artifact

Author: Amalia Avramidou

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 311038292X

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This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary methodology, examining both literary and archaeological sources, and a comparative perspective that transgresses national, chronological, and cultural boundaries, in order to investigate the nature of the links between text and image. This multifaceted approach to the study of ancient artifacts enables the authors to treat art and artistic production as activities that do not merely mirror social or cultural relationships but rather, and more significantly, as activities that create social and cultural relationships. The essays in this book are motivated by their authors' belief that there is no simple direct link between art and myths, art and text, or art and ritual, and that art should not be delegated to the role of a by-product of a literate culture. Instead, the contextual and symbolic analyses of artifacts and representations offered in this volume elucidate how art actively shaped myth, how it changed texts, how it transformed ritual, and how it altered the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.