Word And Image In Ancient Greece (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) - Hardcover

Rutter, Keith; Sparkes, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748614060 ISBN 13: 9780748614066

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The epic poets sang and recited the legends that served the Greeks as their historical past; lyric and elegiac poets sang songs of love and death and celebrated military and sporting success to the accompaniment of the lyre and pipes; the art of rhetoric was a vital ingredient in speeches in the assembly and the law courts; in tragedies and comedies actors spoke to audiences of thousands. Of equal importance to the Greeks were the images with which they were always surrounded - civic and religious monuments, statuary, architectural decoration, and the scenes of myth, fantasy and everyday life with which their vases and vessels were painted and decorated.This volume of new work by leading scholars explores the ways in which these two central aspects of Greek culture interact, and throws new light on their many and related functions. The subjects include the creation of the Greek myths during the early centuries of the first millenniu

About this title

About the Author:

N. Keith Rutter is Honorary Fellow & Professor Emeritus in Classics at the University of Edinburgh Brian Sparkes is Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Southampton

Review:

The authors of the present volume offer fresh views... Word and Image in Ancient Greece is a stimulating book, of interest to those who deal with the visual as well as to those who deal with the verbal aspects of ancient Greece.

(Bente Kilerich The Classical Bulletin)

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0748614060
• ISBN 13: 9780748614066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320