The Development and Significance of the Isolated Head in South Italian Vase Painting
Author: Keely Elizabeth Heuer
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Published: 2011
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Author: Keely Elizabeth Heuer
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Published: 2011
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Oakley
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014-08-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1782976647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAthenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed painters’ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of a wide range of papers – chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the special vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. Athenian Potters and Painters III, the proceedings of an international conference held at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2012, will, like the previous two volumes, become a standard reference work in the study of Greek pottery.
Author: David Saunders
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2022-01-11
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1606067346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious and cultural beliefs behind them. What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerberos, who was captured by Herakles. For mere mortals, ritual and religion offered possibilities for ensuring a happy existence in the beyond, and some of the richest evidence for beliefs about death comes from southern Italy, where the local Italic peoples engaged with Greek beliefs. Monumental funerary vases that accompanied the deceased were decorated with consolatory scenes from myth, and around forty preserve elaborate depictions of Hades’s domain. For the first time in over four decades, these compelling vase paintings are brought together in one volume, with detailed commentaries and ample illustrations. The catalogue is accompanied by a series of essays by leading experts in the field, which provides a framework for understanding these intriguing scenes and their contexts. Topics include attitudes toward the afterlife in Greek ritual and myth, inscriptions on leaves of gold that provided guidance for the deceased; funerary practices and religious beliefs in Apulia, and the importance accorded to Orpheus and Dionysos. Drawing from a variety of textual and archaeological sources, this volume is an essential source for anyone interested in religion and belief in the ancient Mediterranean.
Author: Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 3110421453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn spite of the growing amount of important new work being carried out on uses of myth in particular ancient contexts, their appeal and reception beyond the framework of one culture have rarely been the primary object of enquiry in contemporary debate. Highlighting the fact that ancient societies were linked by their shared use of mythological narratives, Wandering Myths aims to advance our understanding of the mechanisms by which such tales were disseminated cross-culturally and to investigate how they gained local resonances. In order to assess both wider geographic circulations and to explore specific local features and interpretations, a regional approach is adopted, with a particular focus on Anatolia, the Near East and Italy. Contributions are drawn from a range of disciplines, and cross a wide chronological span, but all are interlinked by their engagement with questions focusing on the factors that guided the processes of reception and steered the facets of local interpretation. The Preface and Epilogue evaluate the material in a synoptic way and frame the challenging questions and views expressed in the Introduction.
Author: John Howard Oakley
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 21
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur Dale Trendall
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9789170812057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the contents:0Myth: Poseidon and Anymone on an Apulian pelike (1977) / Callisto in Apulian vase-painting (1977) / A Campanian lekanis in Lugano with the rape of Persephone / Drama: Farce and tragedy in South Italian vase-painting (1991) / Masks on Apulian red-figured vases (1988) / Regional styles and painters: The Felton painter and a newly acquired Apulian comic vase by his hand / Three Apulian kraters in Berlin (1970) ...
Author: T. H. Carpenter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-28
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1107041864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes recent scholarship on the Italic people of fourth-century BC Apulia available to English-speaking audiences.
Author: Kathryn Bosher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-02
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1139510339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theater in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. Together, the essays explore central problems in the study of western Greek theater. By gathering a number of different perspectives and methods, this volume offers the first wide-ranging examination of this hitherto neglected history.
Author: Thomas H. Carpenter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Arthur Dale Trendall
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 108
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