Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art)

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The Greek Myths are such a lot of our visual and literary culture that we generally tend to omit how they entered it in the first place.

Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the remedy of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled reference work for everybody interested in art, drama, poetry, anthropology or religion.

There’s no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of of stories as important as the fall of Troy or Theseus and the Minotaur. It’s to visual sources that we need to turn for much of our knowledge of the myths. Vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and and stone frequently pre-date reference to the myths in literature or offer alternative versions to the familiar accounts; all the time they throw light at the way the Greeks understood the stories of gods and heroes. 370 black-and-white illustrations

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