The Trojan War In Ancient Art

Author : Susan Woodford
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801481642
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trojan War in Ancient Art written by Susan Woodford and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary characters of the Trojan War captured the imaginations not only of Greek and Roman writers, but of countless visual artists as well. A vibrant retelling of the Trojan myths, this handsomely illustrated book brings to life for today's...

Author : Susan Woodford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trojan War in Ancient Art written by Susan Woodford and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary characters of the Trojan War captured the imaginations not only of Greek and Roman writers, but of countless visual artists as well. A vibrant retelling of the Trojan myths, this handsomely illustrated book brings to life for today's readers both visual and literary traditions.

Author : Susan Woodford
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780715624685
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trojan War in Ancient Art written by Susan Woodford and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Anthony F. Mangieri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351863215
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art written by Anthony F. Mangieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not practice human sacrifice, so why then do the myths of virgin sacrifice appear persistently in art and literature for over a millennium? Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art: Women, Agency, and the Trojan War seeks to answer this question. This book tells the stories of the sacrificial maidens in order to help the reader discover the meanings bound up in these myths for historical people. In exploring the representations of Iphigeneia and Polyxena in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, this book offers a broader cultural history that reveals what people in the ancient world were seeking in these stories. The result is an interdisciplinary study that offers new interpretations on the meaning of the sacrificial virgin as a cultural and ideological construction. This is the first book-length study of virgin sacrifice in ancient art and the first to provide an interpretive framework within which to understand its imagery.

Author : Ayse Papatya Bucak
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324002980
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories written by Ayse Papatya Bucak and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism from a Pushcart Prize–winning author. In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is “performed” at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity. Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity.

Author : Steven Lowenstam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Witnessed by Images written by Steven Lowenstam and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowenstam identifies a variety of images and interpretations--some regarded Achilles as a hero, others believed him to be a cruel bully--that reflect and directly respond to the ancient heroic tradition from which the Iliad and Odyssey evolved.

Author : Homer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.A2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iliad written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Little
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307771482
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War written by Emily Little and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. in full color. "An ancient history lesson emerges from this account of the way the Greeks tricked the Trojans and rescued Helen of Troy. The book is well tailored to younger readers with careful explanations and short sentences; a pronunciation guide is appended. Drawings portray the story's main events. A nice supplement to units on ancient Greece or mythology."--Booklist.

Author : T. H. Carpenter
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500776059
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Myth in Ancient Greece written by T. H. Carpenter and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone often pre-date references to the myths in literature, or offer alternative, unfamiliar tellings. In some cases visual art provides our only evidence, as there is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of such important stories as the Fall of Troy, or Theseus and the Minotaur. T. H. Carpenters book is the first comprehensive, scholarly yet succinct survey of myth as it appears in Greek art. Copiously illustrated, it is an essential reference work for everybody interested in the art, drama, poetry or religion of ancient Greece. With this handbook as a guide, readers will be able to identify scenes from myth across the full breadth of archaic and classical Greek art.

Author : Carol G. Thomas
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138749
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trojan War written by Carol G. Thomas and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the historical underpinnngs of the Heroic Age in ancient Greek tradition.