The Black-figure Pottery Signed Nikosthenesepoiesen: Plates
Author: Vincent Tosto
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 176
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The Black-figure Pottery Signed Nikosthenesepoiesen
Author: Vincent Tosto
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAthens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery
Author: Sheramy D. Bundrick
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0299321002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lucrative trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century B.C.E., finding an eager market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them, but Sheramy D. Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan customers, ancient trade networks, and archaeological contexts. Thousands of Greek painted vases have emerged from excavations of tombs, sanctuaries, and settlements throughout Etruria, from southern coastal centers to northern communities in the Po Valley. Using documented archaeological assemblages, especially from tombs in southern Etruria, Bundrick challenges the widely held assumption that Etruscans were hellenized through Greek imports. She marshals evidence to show that Etruscan consumers purposefully selected figured pottery that harmonized with their own local needs and customs, so much so that the vases are better described as etruscanized. Athenian ceramic workers, she contends, learned from traders which shapes and imagery sold best to the Etruscans and employed a variety of strategies to maximize artistry, output, and profit.
Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
Author: Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 131635251X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Greeks inscribed their works of art and craft with labels identifying mythological or historical figures, bits of poetry, and claims of ownership. But no type of inscription is more hotly debated or more intriguing than the artist's signature, which raises questions concerning the role and status of the artist and the work of art or craft itself. In this book, Jeffrey M. Hurwit surveys the phenomenon of artists' signatures across the many genres of Greek art from the eighth to the first century BCE. Although the great majority of extant works lack signatures, the Greek artist nonetheless signed his products far more than any other artist of antiquity. Examining signatures on gems, coins, mosaics, wall-paintings, metalwork, vases, and sculptures, Hurwit argues that signatures help us assess the position of the Greek artist within his society as well as his conception of his own skill and originality.
The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Author: James Whitley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-10-04
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780521627337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA synthesis of research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods.
Mobility and Travel in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Author: Renate Schlesier
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9783825867553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mediterranean world is a model that serves the analysis of the dynamic process of cultural identity through approximation and differentiation, through openness and self-assertion, through a constant contact - by way of travel - to foreign regions, cultures and societies. For ancient Greek culture, mobility seems to be a specific characteristic. The same can be said for the Christian, Judaic and Islamic Middle Ages, however, under different or changed circumstances. This publication presents the contributions to an international workshop in cultural analysis, which focused on mobility as a proof of the historical flexibility of Mediterranean cultural systems.
Greeks and Barbarians
Author: Kostas Vlassopoulos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1107244269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static distinctions between Greeks and Others, Professor Vlassopoulos explores the diversity of interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in four parallel but interconnected worlds: the world of networks, the world of apoikiai ('colonies'), the Panhellenic world and the world of empires. These diverse interactions set into motion processes of globalisation; but the emergence of a shared material and cultural koine across the Mediterranean was accompanied by the diverse ways in which Greek and non-Greek cultures adopted and adapted elements of this global koine. The book explores the paradoxical role of Greek culture in the processes of ancient globalisation, as well as the peculiar way in which Greek culture was shaped by its interaction with non-Greek cultures.
Etruria and Anatolia
Author: Elizabeth P. Baughan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1009151029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores trans-Mediterranean connections between peoples, cultures, and artistic traditions traditionally marginalized by Graeco-Roman bias.
Picture Worlds
Author: David Saunders
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2024-04-30
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1606069063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures, respectively. Picture Worlds is the first book to examine the elaborately decorated terracotta vessels of these three distinct civilizations. Although the cultures were separated by space and time, they all employed pottery as a way to tell stories, explain the world, and illustrate core myths and beliefs. Each of these painted pots is a picture world. But why did these communities reach for pottery as a primary method of visual communication? How were the vessels produced and used? In this book, experts offer introductions to the civilizations, exploring these foundational questions and examining the painted imagery. Readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of each of these ancient societies, fascinating insights into their cultural commonalities and differences, and fresh perspectives on image making and storytelling, practices that remain vibrant to this day. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from April 10 to July 29, 2024, and at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University from September 14 to December 15, 2024.
Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-03-11
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 900469496X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people’s own ideas about what it meant to work. From Plato’s terminology of labor to Roman prostitutes’ self-proclaimed pride in their work, these chapters find ancient people assigning value to multiple different kinds of work, and many different concepts of labor.
