Word And Image In Ancient Greece

Keith Rutter; Brian Sparkes

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2000

Word And Image In Ancient Greece

Keith Rutter and Brian Sparkes

In the series Edinburgh Leventis Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748679850

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In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The epic poets sang and recited the legends that served the Greeks as their historical past; lyric and elegiac poets sang songs of love and death and celebrated military and sporting success to the accompaniment of the lyre and pipes; the art of rhetoric was a vital ingredient in speeches in the assembly and the law courts; in tragedies and comedies actors spoke to audiences of thousands. Of equal importance to the Greeks were the images with which they were always surrounded - civic and religious monuments, statuary, architectural decoration, and the scenes of myth, fantasy and everyday life with which their vases and vessels were painted and decorated.

This volume of new work by leading scholars explores the ways in which these two central aspects of Greek culture interact, and throws new light on their many and related functions. The subjects include the creation of the Greek myths during the early centuries of the first millennium BC when the technique of writing had been lost; the significance of words and images on painted pottery; the relationship between drama on stage and the illustration of the same stories on pottery; and the ways in which stories portrayed in monumental sculpture on temples were understood by the people who came to look at them. Classical Greece produced the beginnings of the tradition of philosophical reflection on the nature and value of images, notably in the work of Plato and Aristotle: the concept of mimesis, concerned with questions both of representation and expression, is directly addressed by several of the authors, and forms an underlying theme of the volume as a whole.

The authors are drawn from the historical, archaeological, literary, philosophical and art historical fields of classical study. The book, which contains 50 illustrations, makes a coherent and important contribution to a subject of great current interest to classicists of all disciplines.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	v
CONTRIBUTORS AND EDITORS Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. IMAGES IN EARLY GREECE
1. SONGS FOR HEROES: The Lack of Images in Early Greece Irene Lemos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. THE USES OF WRITING ON EARLY GREEK PAINTED POTTERY Anthony Snodgrass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
3. TOOLS OF THE TRADE Elizabeth Moignard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II. NARRATIVE AND IMAGE
4. MEANING AND NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES IN STATUE-BASES OF THE PHEIDIAN CIRCLE Olga Palagia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
5. SMALL WORLD: Pygmies and co. Brian Sparkes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
6. PLATO AND PAINTING Stephen Halliwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Part III. IMAGE(RY) AND THE STAGE
7. VASES AND TRAGIC DRAMA: Euripides’ Medea and Sophocles’ lost Tereus Jenny March Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. EIDÔLA IN EPIC, TRAGEDY AND VASE-PAINTING Ruth Bardel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
9. PLACING THEATRE IN THE HISTORY OF VISION Simon Goldhill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
10. SOCIAL STRUCTURE, CULTURAL RATIONALISATION AND AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT IN CLASSICAL GREECE Jeremy Tanner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
11. LOSING THE PICTURE: Change and Continuity in Athenian Grave Monuments in the Fourth and Third Centuries BC Karen Stears Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
12. ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREEK TEMPLE SCULPTURE AND THE VIEWER Robin Osborne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
PROGRAMME OF THE FIRST LEVENTIS GREEK CONFERENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Classics & Ancient History

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Published: November 1, 2000
ISBN: 9780748679850