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“luca giuliani”

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  • Image and Myth

    A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art

    by Luca Giuliani ...
    Translated by Joseph O'Donnell ...
    On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and ... Read more

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  • Homer

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and even today the debate continues as to whether he ever existed. Barbara ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    "A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths." — PhoenixSince the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of "myth" in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a ... Read more

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  • Economy of the Unlost

    (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Homer

    Edited by Robert Fowler ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

    Edited by Roger D. Woodard ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Professor Roger Woodard brings together a group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth to present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through all aspects of the ancient mythic tradition and its influence around the world and in later years. The articles examine the forms and uses of myth in Greek oral and written ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Mixanthrôpoi

    Animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion

    by Emma Aston ...
    Series series Kernos suppléments
    Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

    by Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton, Soteroula Constantinidou, Ken Dowden, Radcliffe G. Edmonds, Ariadni Gartziou-Tatti, Daniel Iakov, Efimia D. Karakantza, Françoise Létoublon, Avgi Maggel, Nanno Marinatos, Dimitris Paleothodoros, Ioanna Patera, Isabelle Ratinaud, Spyros Syropoulos, Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, Athanassia Zografou, Richard Seaford ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought and behavior and expressed in language, beliefs, ritual, and iconography. The book is divided into five parts: color ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

    by Alexandre G. Mitchell ...
    This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre G. Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular. ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • The Sarpedon Krater

    The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase

    by Nigel Spivey ...
    A tale of tomb raiders, legal battles, suspicious death, and a 2,500-year-old vase: "Spivey proves a diligent detective and an engaging storyteller." — Times Literary SupplementPerhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater depicts the body of Sarpedon, a hero of the Trojan War, being carried away to his homeland for burial. It was decorated some 2,500 years ago by Athenian ... Read more

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  • Deep Classics

    Rethinking Classical Reception

    Edited by Professor Shane Butler ...
    Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for – other kinds of human endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Oedipus

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
    Series series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
    An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature.Lowell Edmunds accepts this variation as the driving force in its longevity and popularity. Refraining from seeking for an original form of the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD