H. A. Shapiro

Myth Into Art

Poet and Painter in Classical Greece

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138138322
• ISBN-10: 1138138320
• Artikelnr.: 45102943

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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

Rezensionen

'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

'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