Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art

Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art

Author: Thomas H. Carpenter

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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This study examines the development of Dionysian imagery in Greek vase painting from the first appearance of the god on an Attic vase c. 580 BC to the point at which red figure overtook black figure as the dominant style of vase painting in Attica c. 520 BC.


Dionysos in Archaic Greece

Dionysos in Archaic Greece

Author: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9004144455

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An interpretation of the god Dionysos as seen by Greek vase painters before the golden age of classical culture, which will help understand his wide popularity beyond wine consumption, which lasted until the end of antiquity.


Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-century Athens

Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-century Athens

Author: Thomas H. Carpenter

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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This is an extensive study of Dionysian imagery found primarily in scenes on red-figure vases of the fifth-century BC but also in the architectural sculpture, coins, and theatre of the same period. Thomas Carpenter seeks to define a methodology for using this imagery as evidence for cultural and religious activity, and challenges some commonly-held views about the meaning of Dionysian iconography, at the same time pointing to problems inherent in the evidence under scrutiny.


Art and Myth in Ancient Greece

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece

Author: T. H. Carpenter

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2022-01-20

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 0500776059

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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.


Dionysos in Classical Athens

Dionysos in Classical Athens

Author: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-11-14

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9004270124

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Dionysos, with his following of satyrs and women, was a major theme in a big part of the figure painted pottery in 500-300 B.C. Athens. As an original testimonial of their time, the imagery on these vases convey what this god meant to his worshippers. It becomes clear that he was not only appropriate for wine, wine indulgence, ecstasy and theatre. Rather, he was presenton many, both happy and sad, occasions. The vase painters have emphasized different aspects of Dionysos for their customers inside and outside of Athens, depending on the political and cultural situation.


The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece

The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece

Author: Guy Hedreen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1107118255

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This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.


Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Author: Carolyn Laferrière

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1009315943

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This book examines representations of divine music to argue that visual arts could communicate the sound of divine music being depicted.