| Description |
xx, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction. The world of Greek myth. The place of the poet. The place of the artist. Poet and painter: Narrative strategies -- 2. Epic. Homer's Iliad: The Trojan War. Homer's Odyssey: The wanderings and homecoming of Odysseus. Hesiod: The creation of Pandora -- 3. Lyric. Stesichoros: Herakles and Geryon. Pindar's victory odes. Bacchylides: Dithyrambs -- 4. Drama. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index. |
| Subject |
Vase-painting, Greek.
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Mythology, Greek, in art.
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Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
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| Indexed Term |
Decorative arts Pottery History |
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Greece |
| ISBN |
0415067928 hardback |
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0415067936 paperback |
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