The Italic People of Ancient Apulia
The Italic People of Ancient Apulia

Author: T. H. Carpenter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-08-28

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1107041864

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This book makes recent scholarship on the Italic people of fourth-century BC Apulia available to English-speaking audiences.

Theater outside Athens
Theater outside Athens

Author: Kathryn Bosher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1139510339

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This 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.

Pots & Plays
Pots & Plays

Author: Oliver Taplin

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2007-10-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0892368071

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This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. This book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting.

Myth, Drama and Style in South Italian Vase-painting
Myth, Drama and Style in South Italian Vase-painting

Author: Arthur Dale Trendall

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9789170812057

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From 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) ...

Looking at Greek Vases
Looking at Greek Vases

Author: Tom Rasmussen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-07-26

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9780521376792

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An ancient Greek vase is a difficult object for the non-expert to come to terms with. Faced with rows of apparently undifferentiated black, red and buff pots, he or she is at a loss as to where to begin. Greek vases are treated as objets d'art in the modern world, but how much were they worth in the ancient? They are often used to demonstrate 'the Greek genius' and aspects of ancient Greek society, but why do many of them carry Eastern motifs, and why do so many turn up in Italy? Why were the Greeks not content with simple patterns on their pottery? What did the pictures on the pots mean to them? Why should a vase depict a scene from a play? These are the sorts of questions that this book, first published in 1991, attempts to answer. As the title implies, it is a series of 'looks' at Greek vases, offering suggestions on how to read the often complex images they present.

The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens
The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens

Author: Martin Robertson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521338813

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In his new book, Professor Martin Robertson - author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) - draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the 'red-figure' technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. The book is intended as a companion volume to Sir John Beazley's The Development of Attic Black-figure (originally published in 1951 by California University Press), and as an examination and defence of Beazley's methods and achievements. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject - whether scholar, student, curator, collector or amateur - will find it essential reading.