The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases

The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases

Author: Sara Chiarini

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 9004371206

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As the first extensive survey of the ancient Greek painters’ practice of writing nonsense on vases, The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases by Sara Chiarini provides a systematic overview of the linguistic features of the phenomenon and discusses its forms and contexts of reception. While the origins of the practice lie in the impaired literacy of the painters involved in it, the extent of the phenomenon suggests that, at some point, it became a true fashion within Attic vase painting. This raises the question of the forms of interaction with this epigraphic material. An open approach is adopted: “reading” attempts, riddles and puns inspired by nonsense inscriptions could happen in a variety of circumstances, including the symposium but not limited to it.


Epigraphy of Art

Epigraphy of Art

Author: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781784914868

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Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. This book investigates both epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions, and their broader, iconographic and sociocultural, significance.


Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece

Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece

Author: Jeffrey M. Hurwit

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1107105714

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This book offers insight into Greek conceptions of art, the artist, and artistic originality by examining artists' signatures in ancient Greece.


Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy

Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy

Author: Stephen E. Kidd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-12

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1107050154

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This book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.


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.


Epigraphy of Art

Epigraphy of Art

Author: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2016-12-31

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1784914878

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Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. This book investigates both epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions, and their broader, iconographic and sociocultural, significance.


The Frame in Classical Art

The Frame in Classical Art

Author: Verity Platt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1316943275

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The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within.


A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC

Author: Eric Csapo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 978

ISBN-13: 1108635318

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This is the second volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on theatre culture in Attica (Rural Dionysia) and the rest of the Greek world. It presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre culture and dramatic production from the first two centuries of theatre history, namely the period c.500 to c.300 BC. The traditional assumption is laid to rest that theatre was an exclusively or primarily Athenian institution, with the inclusion of all sources of information for theatrical performances in twenty-two deme sites and over one hundred and twenty independent Greek (and some non-Greek) cities. All texts are translated and made accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. The volume will be a fundamental work of reference for all classicists and theatre historians interested in ancient theatre and its wider historical contexts.


Polytropos Ajax

Polytropos Ajax

Author: Silvia Speriani

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-10-07

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 3111450465

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Meanings are realized at the point of reception and this volume intends to offer an in-depth discussion of some of the meanings associated with and raised by the figure of Telamonian Ajax at various, specifically contextualized, and yet somehow connectable ‘points of reception’. Part 1 looks at how, and from where, and with what effects, the epic and tragic figure of Ajax is constructed and re-defined in archaic and classical Greece. Part 2 moves on to Roman Ajax(es), evaluating how he is used in and by Latin literature as a tool for window-references and innovation, and for reflecting on national identity and cultural categories. Part 3 discusses various ways in which the myth of Ajax, especially in its Sophoclean version, has been translated into theatrical, psychological, and philosophical discussions. This is not an attempt to look for Ajax’s true nature (an ill-posed question in itself). Nor is it a claim to evaluate Ajax’s features as if they could be placed on a straight evolutionary line (they never can be). On the contrary, the volume provides a multiform and interconnected ensemble of relevant patterns, always particularly situated, and constantly changing.


Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

Understanding Relations Between Scripts II

Author: Philippa M. Steele

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1789250951

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Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets is the first volume in this series, bringing together ten experts on ancient writing, languages and archaeology to present a set of diverse studies on the early development of alphabetic writing systems and their spread across the Levant and Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BC. By taking an interdisciplinary perspective, it sheds new light on alphabetic writing not just as a tool for recording language but also as an element of culture.