Myth Into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece

ISBN-13: 9781138138322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 220 str.

H. A. Shapiro;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

'Shapiro extends to students and their lecturers an extremely compelling invitation to study Greek myth as it should be studied, holistically through the visual as well as the textual documentation.' – Scholia Reviews

Spis treści

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

O autorze

H.A.Shapiro is Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand