Library Of Entertaining Knowledge - Softcover

Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371408555 ISBN 13: 9780371408551

Publisher: HardPress, 1832

Synopsis

The Library Of Entertaining Knowledge is a nineteenth?century compendium that surveys the British Museum’s Elgin Marbles and related Greek sculpture. It offers a systematic guide to the Parthenon’s eastern and western pediments, the friezes, metopes, and their casts, and extends to the Erechtheion and Pandrosos and the Phigaleian marbles. Richly illustrated with plates and casts, the volume records contemporary scholarly debates on authorship, dating, and allegorical interpretation, reflecting the contributions of Visconti, Chandler, Carrey, Cockerell, and Westmacott. The text traverses the principal figures and groups—from Hyperion and the day and night personifications in the eastern pediment to Latona, Minerva, Neptune, and the Fates in the western assemblages—along with the centaurs and Lapiths frieze from Phigaleia. It also describes votive offerings from the Pnyx, temple architecture, and the Sigean inscription, and closes with reflections on education and the role of antiquities in liberal learning. Published in 1822, the work remains a rigorous, accessible introduction to classical sculpture.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 1832
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371408555
• ISBN 13: 9780371408551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 377