The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase-painting
The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase-painting

Author: Thomas Mannack

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780199240890

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The potter and painter Myson founded the Mannerist workshop at the end of the sixth century BC. The Mannerists were his pupils and pupils of his pupils, and specialized in columnkraters, hydriai, and pelikai. The workshop was unusually long-lived and was active through the whole of the fifthcentury and the first decade of the fourth.The style of painting and the choice of some subjects are curiously old-fashioned. A number of pictures show rare themes such as the Death of Prokris, Odysseus and Nausicaa, and Orestes in Delphi. Other paintings give an unusual twist to well-known stories. The Mannerists were influenced bytheatrical productions, extant wall paintings, and the works of other vase-painters.The workshop provides important clues for the chronology of Attic vase-painting, for example drawing reflecting Pheidias' Athena Parthenos, and Aeschylos' plays Sphinx, Eumenides, and Seven against Thebes.

Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well
Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well

Author: Darrell Arlynn Amyx

Publisher: ASCSA

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780876610725

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In the first section of this book, Amyx catalogues and discusses more than 200 fragments of Archaic Corinthian pottery with figure decoration, selected from those previously unpublished or inadequately published. The authors have also given attention to vase-painters of the Protocorinthian and Corinthian periods who were previously known chiefly from works exported in antiquity, and have succeeded in establishing the importance of the Corinth Museum as a center for the study of the Corinthian Style. In the second section, Lawrence presents the contents of a well dug and filled in the Archaic period. The material ranges from Early Protocorinthian to Late Corinthian and includes an important body of material from a potters' dump, here treated separately. Shape development and chronology have been established, especially for oinochoai and kotylai, based on the long series of stratified examples. Other material in the fill includes coarse ware and fragmentary fine ware. The authors attribute a number of pieces to known and newly identified vase-painters.

A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity
A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity

Author: Mary Harlow

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350087912

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Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers nearly a thousand years of history, from Archaic Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, concentrating on what is now Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Among the key issues identified by its authors is the recognition that in any given society male and female hair tend to be opposites (when male hair is generally short, women's is long); that hair is a marker of age and stage of life (children and young people have longer, less confined hairstyles; adult hair is far more controlled); hair can be used to identify the 'other' in terms of race and ethnicity but also those who stand outside social norms such as witches and mad women. The chapters in A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity cover the following topics: religion and ritualized belief, self and society, fashion and adornment, production and practice, health and hygiene, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class and social status, and cultural representations.

Land and Ancestors
Land and Ancestors

Author: Frans Theuws

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 9789053562789

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This volume includes an interdisciplinary research programme involving archaeological, anthropological and historical perspectives on different dimensions of the landscape. Although directed towards a specific region, the intensity of the archaeological fieldwork and the large scale of the excavations allow for interpretations that are important for the Northwest European Plain as a whole. Contributions include the publication of primary data of excavations published for the first time and analysis on a more abstract level. The studies include among others: Urnfield symbolism, ancestors and the land in the Lower Rhine Region (Roymans/Kortlang); Urnfield and settlement traces from the Iron Age at Mierlo-Hout (Tol); The archaeology and history of the curia of the abbey of St. Truiden at Hulsel (Theuws); Gift exchange, eternity and landed property. The foundation and endowment of the Premonstratensian priory at Postel (Bijsterveld).

The Parthenon Enigma
The Parthenon Enigma

Author: Joan Breton Connelly

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 030759338X

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"A revolutionary new understanding of the West's most iconic building and the people who made it"--Jacket.

Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque (CCCA)
Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque (CCCA)

Author: M. J. Vermaseren

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9004293809

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Preliminary material -- CAMPANIA -- SAMNIUM -- APULIA AND CALABRIA -- LUCANIA AND BRUTTIUM -- ITALIA MERIDIONALIS -- SICILIA -- MARRUCINI, PAELIGNI, SABINI AND PICENUM -- UMBRIA -- ETRURIA -- SARDINIA -- GALLIA CISPADANA -- VENETIA AND HISTRIA -- GALLIA TRANSPADANA -- LIGURIA -- ITALIA -- GENERAL INDEX -- EPIGRAPHICAL INDEX -- NAMES OF PERSONS -- LIST OF CONSULS -- LIST OF EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES -- ADMINISTRATIVE AND MILITARY GRADES AND FUNCTIONS -- RELIGIOUS GRADES AND FUNCTIONS -- CHRONOLOGICAL LIST -- INDEX OF THE CORRESPONDING INSCRIPTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE PLATES -- PLATES I-CXI FOLDING MAP.

Herod and Augustus
Herod and Augustus

Author: David Jacobson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9047443098

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This volume brings together nineteen studies by foremost experts in the period of Herod and Augustus, and highlights recent progress in elucidating the phenomenon of Herod the Great in the context of the Roman imperial order inaugurated by Augustus. They illuminate Herod’s pre-eminent role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable energies, expressed in an extensive building programme which has left substantial remains. The literary records of Herod’s life and times, primarily by Josephus, are critically examined here in relation to the documentary and archaeological evidence.