Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art

Author: Kristen Seaman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1108851568

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Hellenistic artworks are celebrated for innovations such as narrative, characterization, and description. The most striking examples are works associated with the Hellenistic courts. Their revolutionary appearance is usually attributed to Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East, the start of the Hellenistic kingdoms, and Greek-Eastern interactions. In Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art, Kristen Seaman offers a new approach to Hellenistic art by investigating an internal development in Greek cultural production, notably, advances in rhetoric. Rhetorical education taught kings, artists, and courtiers how to be Greek, giving them a common intellectual and cultural background from which they approached art. Seaman explores how rhetorical techniques helped artists and their royal patrons construct Hellenism through their innovative art in the scholarly atmospheres of Pergamon and Alexandria. Drawing upon artistic, literary, and historical evidence, this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to students and scholars in art and archaeology, Classics, and ancient history.

Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100
Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100

Author: Joshua James Thomas

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-01-21

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 019284489X

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The first monograph-length study on the intersection of art, science, and the natural world in Hellenistic and Roman times. Examines a series of mosaics, wall-paintings, and papyri surviving from the period 300 BC - AD 100, setting them in their historical and cultural context.

The Peoples of Anatolia
The Peoples of Anatolia

Author: Jeremy LaBuff

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-04-25

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 9004519513

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This work critiques studies of the peoples of Anatolia that overestimate the importance of regional ethnic identities and explain cultural change via Hellenization, instead highlighting local forms of belonging and non-binary views of cultural dynamics.

The Representation of Space in Graeco-Roman Art
The Representation of Space in Graeco-Roman Art

Author: Michael Koortbojian

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-11-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 3111086526

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This book assesses the role of relief in the representation of space in Graeco-Roman artistic practice and its study – from Winckelmann to the mid-twentieth century – when Classical art developed as a theoretical discipline. The role of relief in the history of ancient sculpture has long been acknowledged, yet the problems posed by an engagement with the representation of space have not been a subject of specific and sustained inquiry. Neither a conventional history nor a comprehensive historiography, this book traces the study of relief – of its formal character, its artistic purpose, its aesthetic significance, and its historical treatment. The contribution to scholarship is three-fold: (1) By means of a wide array of examples, the book demonstrates that the visual strategies employed to represent space during the Graeco-Roman period were a continuously evolving repertory tied to the refinement of techniques and the transformation of styles that those techniques brought into being. (2) It examines ideas now commonplace, based on scholarship now long-neglected if not completely forgotten. And (3) it reveals how competing interpretations of the representation of space in relief elaborated new approaches to the monuments and their representations.

Rhetoric in Antiquity
Rhetoric in Antiquity

Author: Laurent Pernot

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0813214076

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Originally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics

Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination
Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination

Author: Martin M. Winkler

Publisher:

Published: 2024-02-14

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1009396730

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This book aims to enhance our appreciation of the modernity of the classical cultures and, conversely, of cinema's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. It explores filmic perspectives on the ancient verbal and visual arts and applies what is often referred to as pre-cinema and what Sergei Eisenstein called cinematism: that paintings, statues, and literature anticipate modern visual technologies. The motion of bodies depicted in static arts and the vividness of epic ecphrases point to modern features of storytelling, while Plato's Cave Allegory and Zeno's Arrow Paradox have been related to film exhibition and projection since the early days of cinema. The book additionally demonstrates the extensive influence of antiquity on an age dominated by moving-image media, as with stagings of Odysseus' arrow shot through twelve axes or depictions of the Golden Fleece. Chapters interpret numerous European and American silent and sound films and some television productions and digital videos.

The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World
The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World

Author: Antonio Corso

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2022-08-18

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1803271655

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Bringing together for the first time all the available evidence for the origination and development of the concept of Arcadia, from the Homeric period to the early Roman Empire, this book brings to light a treasure-trove of evidence, both well-known and obscure or fragmentary, filling a significant gap in the scholarly bibliography.

Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece
Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece

Author: Kristen Seaman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-09

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1107074460

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Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece questions many long-held ideas and provides a deeper understanding of particular artists and architects.

Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry
Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry

Author: Marco Fantuzzi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-01-13

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9781139442527

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Hellenistic poets of the third and second centuries BC were concerned with the need both to mark their continuity with the classical past and to demonstrate their independence from it. In this revised and expanded translation of Muse e modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto, Greek poetry of the third and second centuries BC and its reception and influence at Rome are explored allowing both sides of this literary practice to be appreciated. Genres as diverse as epic and epigram are considered from a historical perspective, in the full range of their deep-level structures, providing a different perspective on the poetry and its influence at Rome. Some of the most famous poetry of the age such as Callimachus' Aitia and Apollonius' Argonautica is examined. In addition, full attention is paid to the poetry of encomium, in particular the newly published epigrams of Posidippus, and Hellenistic poetics, notably Philodemus.

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

Author: Ian Worthington

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-01-11

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 144433414X

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This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English