Rui Morais;Delfim Leão;Diana Rodríguez Pérez;Daniela Ferreira;Rui Morais;De...
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2019
This publication on Greek Art gathers a large number of studies presented at the International Congress ‘Greek Art in Motion'. Held in honour of Sir John Boardman's 90th birthday, the congress took place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, 3-5 May, 2017. The volume first presents eight contributions by the keynote speakers who, as friends and students of Sir John, present a debate and a problematisation of Greek Art from the archaeological and historical point of view. Thereafter, 45 papers are divided into the different themes considered during the congress, all of which have greatly benefited from Sir John's researches throughout his long and distinguished academic career: Sculpture, Architecture, Terracotta and Metal, Greek Pottery, Coins, Greek History and Archaeology, Greeks Overseas, Reception and Collecting, Art and Myth.
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A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
John H. Oakley;John Oakley;John H. Oakley;John Oakley
Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece....
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A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
2020
Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has been written on scenes of daily life, and what has been written has been tucked away in hard-to-find books and journals. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases synthesizes this material and expands it: it is the first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John H. Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations. This guide is an essential and much-needed reference for scholars and an ideal sourcebook for classics and art history.
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Vase-painting, Greek--Greece--Athens--Themes, motives - Vases, Greek--Greece--Athens--Themes, motivesContent provider:
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Spuren der altägyptischen Gesellschaft : Festschrift für Stephan J. Seidlmayer
Richard Bußmann;Ingelore Hafemann;Robert Schiestl;Daniel A. Werning;Richard...
Die Hinterlassenschaften der Gesellschaft des Alten Ägyptens reichen von monumentalen ...
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Spuren der altägyptischen Gesellschaft : Festschrift für Stephan J. Seidlmayer
2022; Vol. 00014
Die Hinterlassenschaften der Gesellschaft des Alten Ägyptens reichen von monumentalen Pyramidenanlagen bis zu mikroskopischen Spuren menschlicher Aktivitäten, von Felsinschriften bis zu Romanen. Wie lässt sich das alles sinnvoll in Bezug stellen und welche Methoden und Fragestellungen sind dafür notwendig? Das Buch versammelt 28 Beiträge zu Ehren Stephan J. Seidlmayers, die versuchen, darauf aktuelle Antworten zu geben.
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The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece : Art , Poetry, and Subjectivity
Guy Hedreen;Guy Hedreen
This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and li...
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The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece : Art , Poetry, and Subjectivity
2016
This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art , Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, and sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.
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Greek poetry--Themes, motives - Art and literature--Greece--History--To 1500 - Greek poetry--History and criticism - Vase-painting, Greek--History - Vase-painting, Greek--Themes, motives - Arts, Greek--History - Subjectivity in art - Subjectivity in literatureContent provider:
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Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery
Sheramy D. Bundrick;Sheramy D. Bundrick
A lucrative trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late f...
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Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery
2019
A lucrative trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century B.C.E., finding an eager market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them, but Sheramy D. Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan customers, ancient trade networks, and archaeological contexts. Thousands of Greek painted vases have emerged from excavations of tombs, sanctuaries, and settlements throughout Etruria, from southern coastal centers to northern communities in the Po Valley. Using documented archaeological assemblages, especially from tombs in southern Etruria, Bundrick challenges the widely held assumption that Etruscans were hellenized through Greek imports. She marshals evidence to show that Etruscan consumers purposefully selected figured pottery that harmonized with their own local needs and customs, so much so that the vases are better described as etruscanized. Athenian ceramic workers, she contends, learned from traders which shapes and imagery sold best to the Etruscans and employed a variety of strategies to maximize artistry, output, and profit.
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Pottery, Greek--Italy--Etruria - Vases, Greek--Greece--Athens - Vases, Greek--Italy--Etruria - Pottery, Greek--Greece--AthensContent provider:
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Imagination and Art : Explorations in Contemporary Theory
Keith Moser;Ananta Ch. Sukla;Keith Moser;Ananta Ch. Sukla
This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination ...
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Imagination and Art : Explorations in Contemporary Theory
2020; Vol. 00351
This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise this volume propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms. Imagination and Art : Explorations in Contemporary Theory explores the complex nuances, paradoxes, and aporias related to the plethora of artistic mediums in which the human imagination manifests itself. As a fundamental attribute of our species, which other organisms also seem to possess with varying degrees of sophistication, imagination is the very fabric of what it means to be human into which everything is woven. This edited collection demonstrates that imagination is the resin that binds human civilization together for better or worse.
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Imagination - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)Content provider:
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La Splendeur Des Dieux: Quatre Études Iconographiques Sur L’hellénisme Égyptien (2 Vols)
Gaëlle Tallet;Gaëlle Tallet
Que viennent faire les rayons solaires du dieu grec Hélios sur le front d'un dieu croc...
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La Splendeur Des Dieux: Quatre Études Iconographiques Sur L’hellénisme Égyptien (2 Vols)
2021; Vol. 00001
Que viennent faire les rayons solaires du dieu grec Hélios sur le front d'un dieu crocodile égyptien? Cette question est au point de départ d'une enquête au cœur de la plasticité du système polythéiste de l'Égypte gréco-romaine. Parcourant le labyrinthe des diverses communautés et croyances grecques et égyptiennes, Gaëlle Tallet utilise le fil d'Ariane de la production des images religieuses, réponses à de nouveaux besoins et de nouvelles perceptions du divin, et ouvre les portes des ateliers où elles ont été conçues, commandées et façonnées. La Splendeur des dieux propose une réévaluation du rôle des clergés et des artistes indigènes dans l'élaboration d'un hellénisme proprement égyptien, qui leur a permis de promouvoir et préserver des traditions millénaires. Why are the rays of the Greek god Helios on the forehead of a crocodile-headed Egyptian deity? Navigating the maze of Greek and Egyptian communities and creeds, Gaëlle Tallet investigates the plasticity of material culture in the polytheistic context of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Using the Ariadne's thread of the manufacturing of new images, suitable to new needs and new understandings of the divine, La Splendeur des dieux opens the doors of the workshops where these images were designed, ordered and crafted. Tallet offers a full re-appraisal of the cultural balance of powers in Graeco-Roman Egypt, depicting the indigenous clergies and artists as integratedactors of an Egyptian Hellenicity that helped promote and preserve their millenaries-old traditions.
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Nimbus (Art) - Nimbus - Gods, Egyptian, in art - Gods, Greek, in artContent provider:
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Akroter und Architektur : Figürliche Skulptur auf Dächern griechischer Bauten vom 6. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Corinna Reinhardt;Corinna Reinhardt
Die Ausstattung repräsentativer Tempel- und Schatzhausarchitektur mit Bauskulpturen is...
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Akroter und Architektur : Figürliche Skulptur auf Dächern griechischer Bauten vom 6. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
2018; Vol. 00018
Die Ausstattung repräsentativer Tempel- und Schatzhausarchitektur mit Bauskulpturen ist ein Phänomen, das vom 6. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. in Griechenland vielfältig anzutreffen ist. Die Akrotere auf dem Dach waren durch ihre Position besonders auffällig im Erscheinungsbild eines Gebäudes und nahmen damit entscheidenden Einfluss auf seine Wahrnehmung im Kontext des Heiligtums. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die ästhetische und bildliche Konzeption von figürlichen Akroterbildern sowie ihre Wirkung in engem Zusammenhang zu ihrem architektonischen und historischen Kontext. Im Mittelpunkt steht demnach die Frage danach, was diese Bilder für das Gebäude und seine Auftraggeber leisteten. Gleichzeitig werden als Grundlage für diese Fragen auch die Dächer in den Blick genommen, die etwa Auskunft darüber geben, wie Akrotere befestigt und wie sie genau positioniert wurden. Die verschiedenen Konzepte der Akroterbilder und die Umstände ihrer Verwendung geben Einblick in die Potenziale eines Bildfeldes in der griechischen Architektur, das einerseits für die ästhetische Gestaltung und Charakterisierung des Gebäudes, andererseits auch für die Repräsentation der Auftraggeber einen entscheidenden Beitrag leistete.
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Symbolism in architecture--Greece - Figure sculpture, Greek - AcroteriaContent provider:
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The World Underfoot : Mosaics and Metaphor in the Greek Symposium
Hallie M. Franks;Hallie M. Franks
In the Greek Classical period, the symposium--the social gathering at which male citiz...
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The World Underfoot : Mosaics and Metaphor in the Greek Symposium
2018
In the Greek Classical period, the symposium--the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation--was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter, symposiasts looked inward to the room's center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the spectre of Dionysos: the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. In The World Underfoot, Hallie M. Franks takes as her subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, she presents an innovative new interpretation of the mosaic imagery as an active contributor to the symposium as a metaphorical experience. Franks argues that the images on mosaic floors, combined with the ritualized circling of the wine cup and the physiological reaction to wine during the symposium, would have called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event--a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.
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Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) - Mosaic floors--Greece--Themes, motives - Art and society--Greece--History--To 1500 - Metaphor in artContent provider:
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Anthropomorphic Images in Rock Art Paintings and Rock Carvings
Terence Meaden;Herman Bender;Terence Meaden;Herman Bender
In the realm of rock art, humanlike images appear widely through time and space from t...
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Anthropomorphic Images in Rock Art Paintings and Rock Carvings
2020
In the realm of rock art , humanlike images appear widely through time and space from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and for some continents to later, yet still prehistoric, times. The artworks discussed in Anthropomorphic Images in Rock Art Paintings and Rock Carvings range from paintings, engravings or scratchings on cave walls and rock shelters, images pecked into rocky surfaces or upon standing stones, and major sacred sites (among them Gobekli Tepe, Avebury, Stonehenge, and the Palaeolithic Chauvet Cave) in which the possibility exists of recovery of the meanings intended by the artists and sculptors. Such prospects can relate to known or inferred legends, myths, folklore, rites and ritual, and often allude to matters that recognise the unremitting benefits of human, animal and crop fertility to humankind. Occasionally, relevant art forms are present not in whole but as pars pro toto, in which a part stands for or symbolises the whole. Images or artistic compositions often articulate, in ways more or less manifest, scenes of dramatic action as with hunting and dancing, mating and birthing, ritual and ceremony, some of which may openly or latently express yearnings for the rewards of fruitful fecundity – as with the much-loved worldview known as the hieros gamos or Sacred Marriage.
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Anthropomorphism in art - Rock paintings - PetroglyphsContent provider:
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Classical New York : Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis;Matthew McGowan;Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis;Matthew M...
During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropol...
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Classical New York : Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham
2018
During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city's art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York's most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces.Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century's Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces.Specialists from a range of disciplines—archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history— focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City's most evocative buildings and works of art . Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression.Designed to add breadth and depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today, this examination of post-Revolutionary art , politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space—be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic—and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.
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Public buildings--New York (State)--New York - Architecture, Roman--Influence - Neoclassicism (Architecture)--New York (State)--New York - Architecture, Greek--InfluenceContent provider:
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The Modern Hercules : Images of the Hero From the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
Alastair J.L. Blanshard;Emma Stafford;Alastair J.L. Blanshard;Emma Stafford
The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Ro...
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The Modern Hercules : Images of the Hero From the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century
2020; Vol. 00021
The Modern Hercules explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – in western culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, exploring this complex hero's transformations of identity and significance in a wide range of modern media, including literature, visual arts and film. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent figuring of Herakles-Hercules in western culture, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero's perennial appeal.
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Arts, Modern--Themes, motives--CongressesContent provider:
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Current Research in Egyptology 2021 : Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Symposium, University of the Aegean , 9-16 May 2021
Electra Apostola;Christos Kekes;Electra Apostola;Christos Kekes
Current Research in Egyptology 2021 presents papers from the Twenty-First Annual Meeti...
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Current Research in Egyptology 2021 : Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Symposium, University of the Aegean , 9-16 May 2021
2022
Current Research in Egyptology 2021 presents papers from the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the international postgraduate conference Current Research in Egyptology, held online by the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece) on 9-16 May 2021. Almost 100 participants from institutions all over the world presented their insightful research on a wide range of topics regarding all periods of ancient Egypt. Fifteen Egyptological and Papyrological papers are published here, which investigate a great variety of issues, including social and religious aspects of life in ancient Egypt, ritual and magic, language and literature, ideology of death, demonology, the iconographical tradition, and intercultural relations, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to the Coptic period. The wide chronological and thematic scope of the book reflects the multifaceted, interdisciplinary and innovative character of modern Egyptology.
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Egyptology--CongressesContent provider:
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Structure, Image, Ornament : Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World
Ralf Von den Hoff;Peter Schultz;Ralf Von den Hoff;Peter Schultz
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of ...
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Structure, Image, Ornament : Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World
2009
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda Westervelt and Lorenz Winkler-Horacek. The contents are divided into four sections I. Structure and Ornament; II. Technique and Agency; III. Myth and Narrative and IV. Diffusion and Influence. Highlights include Robin Osbornes discussion of What you can do with a chariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; Ralf von den Hoffs consideration of the Athenian treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwabs presentation of New evidence for Parthenon east metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety of issues in architectural sculpture but also present a range of case studies from all over the Greek world. The result is an important collection of current research.
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Architecture--Greece--Congresses - Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Greece--Congresses - Sculpture, Greek--CongressesContent provider:
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The Chora of Metaponto 7 : The Greek Sanctuary at Pantanello
Joseph Coleman Carter;Keith Swift;Joseph Coleman Carter;Keith Swift
The seventh volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on the rural cou...
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The Chora of Metaponto 7 : The Greek Sanctuary at Pantanello
2018; Vol. 00007
The seventh volume in the Institute of Classical Archaeology's series on the rural countryside (chora) of Metaponto is a study of the Greek sanctuary at Pantanello. The site is the first Greek rural sanctuary in southern Italy that has been fully excavated and exhaustively documented. Its evidence—a massive array of distinctive structural remains and 30,000-plus artifacts and ecofacts—offers unparalleled insights into the development of extra-urban cults in Magna Graecia from the seventh to the fourth centuries BC and the initiation rites that took place within the cults. Of particular interest are the analyses of the well-preserved botanical and faunal material, which present the fullest record yet of Greek rural sacrificial offerings, crops, and the natural environment of southern Italy and the Greek world. Excavations from 1974 to 2008 revealed three major phases of the sanctuary, ranging from the Archaic to Early Hellenistic periods. The structures include a natural spring as the earliest locus of the cult, an artificial stream (collecting basin) for the spring's outflow, Archaic and fourth-century BC structures for ritual dining and other cult activities, tantalizing evidence of a Late Archaic Doric temple atop the hill, and a farmhouse and tile factory that postdate the sanctuary's destruction. The extensive catalogs of material and special studies provide an invaluable opportunity to study the development of Greek material culture between the seventh and third centuries BC, with particular emphasis on votive pottery and figurative terracotta plaques.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)--Italy--Metaponto Region - Temples, Greek--Italy--Metaponto Region - Plant remains (Archaeology)--Italy--Metaponto Region - Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Metaponto Region - Greeks--Italy--Metaponto RegionContent provider:
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A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story So Far : An Autobiography
John Boardman;John Boardman
A Classical Archaeologists's Life: The Story so Far shows that a scholar's life is not...
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A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story So Far : An Autobiography
2020
A Classical Archaeologists's Life: The Story so Far shows that a scholar's life is not all scholarship, though much of this book is devoted to the writing of books and, especially, travel to classical and other lands. Boardman is a Londoner, born in Ilford and attending school in Essex (Chigwell). His teenage years were spent often in air raid shelters rather than with ‘mates‘ (all evacuated). There are distinctive ‘aunties', the rituals of daily life in a London suburb. The non-scholarly figures live large in this account of his life, marriage, children, new houses. At Cambridge he learned about classical archaeology as a necessary addition to reading Homer and Demosthenes, even being obliged to recite the latter. And those were the days of Bertrand Russell's lectures in a university reawakening after the war. Thence to the British School at Athens to learn about excavation (Smyrna, Knossos, later Libya). His return from Greece was to Oxford, not Cambridge, at first in the Ashmolean Museum, then as Reader and Professor. A spell in New York gives an account of the city before the troubles, when Petula Clark's Down Town was dominant. There is much here to reflect on university life and teaching, and on the reasons for and problems with the writing of his many books (some 40), with reflection on the university, colleges and their ways. Travels are well documented – a notable trip through Pakistan and China, in Persia, Egypt, Turkey – with comment on what he saw and experienced beyond archaeology. A lecture tour in Australia provides comment beyond the academic. He visited Israel often, lecturing and publishing for the Bible Lands Museum. Several tours in the USA took him to most of their museums and universities as well as many other sights, from glaciers to alligators. This book is a mixture of scholarly reminiscence, reflection on family life, travelogue, and critique of classical scholarship (not all archaeological) worldwide, illustrated with pictures of travels, friends, home life, and, for a historian, a reflection on experiences of over 90 years.
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Archaeologists--Great Britain--Biography - Classical antiquitiesContent provider:
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Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition
Wayne E. Lee;Wayne E. Lee
An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on...
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Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition
2020
An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefieldIdeas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to determine how culture informs the battlefield. Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. Chapters range from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies, to an exploration of military culture in late Republican Rome, to debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification.In addition to a revised and expanded introduction, the second edition of Warfare and Culture in World History now adds new chapters on the role of herding in shaping Mongol strategies, Spanish military culture and its effects on the conquest of the New World, and the blending of German and East African military cultures among the Africans who served in the German colonial army. This volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices.
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War and society--History - Military art and science--History - Military history - Political culture--HistoryContent provider:
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Current Research in Egyptology 2022 : Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Symposium, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, 26-30 September 2022
A. Bouhafs;L. Chapon;M. Claude;M. Danilova;L. Dautais;N. Fathy;A.I. Fernánd...
The twenty-second Current Research in Egyptology conference was held at the Université...
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Current Research in Egyptology 2022 : Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Symposium, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, 26-30 September 2022
2023
The twenty-second Current Research in Egyptology conference was held at the Université Paul Valéry- Montpellier 3 on 26th–30th September 2022. From 250 attendees in person and online, young scholars in Egyptology from different institutions all over the world presented ninety-four papers and twenty-four posters. September 1822 witnessed a milestone event that marked the birth of scientific Egyptology: the young Jean-François Champollion from Figeac outlined the principles of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing in his famous Lettre à M. Dacier. 2022 also marked the centenary of another important milestone in Egyptology: the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For these reasons, the congress celebrated the history of Egyptology and associated research with dedicated sessions, making them a focal point of the event. The present volume collects thirty-two papers on various topics from the history of Egyptology to archaeology and material culture, from the Predynastic to the Roman period, through history and epigraphy, as well as new technologies.
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EgyptologyContent provider:
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Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
Marjorie Susan Venit;Marjorie Susan Venit
Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inacce...
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Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt
2016
Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (c.300 BCE–250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs'commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances. This book sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.
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Narrative art--Egypt--History--To 1500 - Decoration and ornament--Egypt--History--To 1500 - Cultural pluralism--Egypt--History--To 1500 - Tombs--Egypt - Death--Social aspects--Egypt--History--To 1500Content provider:
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Auditive Räume des alten Ägypten : Die Umgestaltung einer Hörkultur in der Amarnazeit
Erika Meyer-Dietrich;Erika Meyer-Dietrich
In Auditive Räume des alten Ägypten Erika Meyer-Dietrich explores the sonic aspects of...
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Auditive Räume des alten Ägypten : Die Umgestaltung einer Hörkultur in der Amarnazeit
2017; Vol. 00092
In Auditive Räume des alten Ägypten Erika Meyer-Dietrich explores the sonic aspects of culture in the 18th Dynasty (1550-1290 BCE). Crucial to the transformation of an audio culture during the Amarna Period are the transfer of traditional sound patterns to new contexts and the position of the heard body in social spaces. Based on the iconography of sonic acting and the representation of urban places as auditive spaces in the rock tombs of Tell el Amarna she convincingly shows how, through sound sequences and the creation or omission of sounds, auditive spaces are given social and religious significance. Her work adds an important new aspect to the understanding of the Amarna Period, which until now has been studied mainly as a visual culture.
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Communication and culture--Egypt - Architectural acousticsContent provider:
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The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy
Charles Brian Rose;Charles Brian Rose
The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides an overview of all excavations that h...
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The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy
2013
The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy provides an overview of all excavations that have been conducted at Troy, from the nineteenth century through the latest discoveries between 1988 and the present. Charles Brian Rose traces the social and economic development of the city and related sites in the Troad, as well as the development of its civic and religious centers from the Bronze Age through the early Christian period, with a focus on the settlements of Greek and Roman date. Along the way, he reconsiders the circumstances of the Trojan War and chronicles Troy's gradual development into a Homeric tourist destination and the adoption of Trojan ancestry by most nation-states in medieval Europe.
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Excavations (Archaeology)--Turkey--Troy (Extinct city)Content provider:
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Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vols.)
Susan Sinclair;Susan Sinclair
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have c...
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Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vols.)
2012; Vol. 00002
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
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Ancient Comedy and Reception : Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson
S. Douglas Olson;S. Douglas Olson
This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholar...
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Ancient Comedy and Reception : Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson
2014
This wide-ranging collection, consisting of 50 essays by leading international scholars in a variety of fields, provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Section I considers how the 5th- and 4th-century Athenian comic poets defined themselves and their plays, especially in relation to other major literary forms. It then moves on to the Roman world and to the reception of Greek comedy there in art and literature. Section II deals with the European reception of Greek and Roman comedy in the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern periods, and with the European stage tradition of comic theater more generally. Section III treats the handling of Greco-Roman comedy in the modern world, with attention not just to literary translations and stage-productions, but to more modern media such as radio and film. The collection will be of interest to students of ancient comedy as well as to all those concerned with how literary and theatrical traditions are passed on from one time and place to another, and adapted to meet local conditions and concerns.
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Latin drama (Comedy)--History and criticism - Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticismContent provider:
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The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance
Mary Ellen Snodgrass;Mary Ellen Snodgrass
While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there is...
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The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance
2016
While there are books about folk dances from individual countries or regions, there isn't a single comprehensive book on folk dances across the globe. This illustrated compendium offers the student, teacher, choreographer, historian, media critic, ethnographer, and general reader an overview of the evolution and social and religious significance of folk dance.The Encyclopedia of World Folk Dance focuses on the uniqueness of kinetic performance and its contribution to the study and appreciation of rhythmic expression around the globe. Following a chronology of momentous events dating from prehistory to the present day, the entries in this volume include material on technical terms, character roles, and specific dances. The entries also summarize the historical and ethnic milieu of each style and execution, highlighting, among other elements, such features as:originspurposerituals and traditionspropsdressholidaysthemes
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Folk dancing--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Approaching the Ancient Artifact : Representation, Narrative, and Function
Amalia Avramidou;Denise Demetriou;Amalia Avramidou;Denise Demetriou
This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally ren...
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Approaching the Ancient Artifact : Representation, Narrative, and Function
2014
This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary methodology, examining both literary and archaeological sources, and a comparative perspective that transgresses national, chronological, and cultural boundaries, in order to investigate the nature of the links between text and image. This multifaceted approach to the study of ancient artifacts enables the authors to treat art and artistic production as activities that do not merely mirror social or cultural relationships but rather, and more significantly, as activities that create social and cultural relationships. The essays in this book are motivated by their authors'belief that there is no simple direct link between art and myths, art and text, or art and ritual, and that art should not be delegated to the role of a by-product of a literate culture. Instead, the contextual and symbolic analyses of artifacts and representations offered in this volume elucidate how art actively shaped myth, how it changed texts, how it transformed ritual, and how it altered the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.
