Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Ancient & Classical

In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.

In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.''

This book is the first comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the unique arts of Teotihuacan, including architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and ceramics. Comparing the arts of Teotihuacan - not previously judged "artistic" - with those of other ancient civilizations, Ester Pasztory demonstrates how they created and reflected the community's ideals.

Most people associate the pyramids of central Mexico with the Aztecs, but these colossal constructions antedate the Aztecs by more than a thousand years. The people of Teotihuacan, who built the pyramids as part of a city of...

Dialect work is one of the actor's most challenging tasks. Need to know a Russian accent? Playing a German countess or a Midwestern farmhand? These and more accents a " from Yiddish to French Canadian a " are clearly explained in Evangeline Machlin's classic work.

Now available in a book-and-CD format, Evangeline Machlin's Dialects for the Stage is based on a method of dialect acquisition she developed during her years working with students at Boston University's Division of Theatre. During her long career, Evangeline Machlin trained such actors as Steve McQueen, Lee Grant, Suzanne...

Der 1863 von Rudolph Ludwig geborgene "Pyrmonter Brunnenfund" umfat 250 Fibeln des 1.-4. Jahrhunderts. Nach seiner Entdeckung wurde er uber viele deutsche Sammlungen verstreut. Bis heute hat er weder eine umfassende Bearbeitung noch eine begrundete Einschatzung und Wertung erfahren.

Diese Arbeit bereitet zum ersten Mal die gesamte, sehr wechselvolle Geschichte der einzelnen Antiquitaten auf, bestimmt ihre archaologisch-historische Bedeutung und vergleicht die Relevanz dieses Opferkomplexes mit anderen, insbesondere nordeuropaischen Opferplatzen.

Welche Veranderungen gingen mit der romischen Herrschaft am unteren Lauf des Rheins einher? Welche Lebensbereiche blieben von der Romanisierung unberuhrt? Welche Kontinuitaten, welche Bruche lassen sich in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur der Germania inferior feststellen? Geschichtliche Ubergange wie die Anfangs- und die Endphase der romischen Herrschaft sind fur die historischen Wissenschaften Phanomene von besonderer Aussagekraft:

So klein die Provinz auch war, weist die Germania inferior doch keine einheitliche Entwicklung auf. Fur Stadt und Land, Nord und Sud und...