Periklean Athens and its legacy : problems and perspectives

Periklean Athens and its legacy : problems and perspectives /

The late fifth century BC was the golden age of ancient Athens. Under the leadership of the renowned soldier-statesman Perikles, Athenians began rebuilding the Akropolis, where they created the still awe-inspiring Parthenon. Athenians also reached a zenith of artistic achievement in sculpture, vase...

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Other Authors: Barringer, Judith M., 1959- (Editor), Hurwit, Jeffrey M., 1949- (Editor), Pollitt, J. J. (Jerome Jordan), 1934- (honouree.)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Art, Greek > Greece > Athens.
Art, Greek > Influence.
Art, Classical > Greece > Athens.
Art > Greece.
ART > History > General.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Art.
Art, Classical.
Art, Greek.
Electronic books.
Greece.
Greece > Athens.
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Table of Contents:
  • Note on Abbreviations
  • Jerome Jordan Pollitt: a Bibliography
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Perikles as General (Donald Kagan)
  • THE ART OF CLASSICAL AND PERIKLEAN ATHENS
  • 2. Bail Oinochoai (John H. Oakley)
  • 3. A Farewell with Arms: Departing Warriors on Athenian Vases (Susan B. Matheson)
  • 4. The Girl in the Pithos: Hesiod's Elpis (Jenifer Neils)
  • 5. The Judgment of Helen in Athenian Art (H.A. Shapiro)
  • 6. Composition and Content on Classical Murals and Vases (John Boardman)
  • 7. The Painting Program in the Stoa Poikile (Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell).
  • 8. Feminizing the Barbarian and Barbarizing the Feminine: Amazons, Trojans, and Persians in the Stoa Poikile (David Castriota)
  • 9. Notes on the Subject of the Ilissos Temple Frieze (Randall L.B. McNeill)
  • 10. "Periklean" Cult Images and Their Media (Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway)
  • 11. Athena at Pallene and in the Agora of Athens (Evelyn B. Harrison)
  • THE PERIKLEAN AKROPOLIS
  • 12. The Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Jeffrey M. Hurwit)
  • 13. The Parthenon Frieze and Perikles' Cavalry of a Thousand (Ian Jenkins)
  • 14. Alkamenes' Prokne and Itys in Context (Judith M. Barringer).
  • 15. Interpretations of Two Athenian Friezes: The Temple on the Ilissos and the Temple of Athena Nike (Olga Palagia)
  • THE LEGACY OF PERIKLEAN ATHENS
  • 16. Alpheos to the Orontes: An Unusual Echo of the Pheidian Zeus at the Syrian Port of Seleukia Pieria (Cornelius C. Vermeule III)
  • 17. A Rhetorical Perikles (W. Martin Bloomer)
  • 18. On Some Motives Supposed Present in Self-Portraits of Pheidias and Others (Creighton Gilbert)
  • 20. Early Photography and the Reception of Classical Antiquity: The Case of the Temple of Athena Nike (Peter J. Holliday)
  • THE LEGACY OF JEROME J. POLLITT.
  • 21. Greek Art and Culture Since: Art and Experience in Classical Greece (Elizabeth A. Meyer and J.E. Lendon)
  • Works Cited
  • About the Contributors
  • Index.

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