| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages) : illustrations. |
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Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 1
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Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 1.
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| Note |
Revision of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name held in Old College, University of Edinburgh, on Mar. 5-6, 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Songs for heroes : the lack of images in early Greece / Irene Lemos -- The uses of writing on early Greek painted pottery / Anthony Snodgrass -- Tools of trade / Elizabeth Moignard -- Meaning and narrative techniques in statue-bases of the Pheidian circle / Olga Palagia -- Small world : pygmies and co. / Brian Sparkes -- Plato and painting / Stephen Halliwell -- Vases and tragic drama : Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' lost Tereus / Jenny March -- Eidôla in epic, tragedy and vase-painting / Ruth Bardel -- Placing theatre in the history of vision / Simon Goldhill -- Social structure, cultural rationalisation and aesthetic judgment in classical Greece / Jeremy Tanner -- Losing the picture : change and continuity in Athenian grave monuments in the fourth and third centuries BC / Karen Stears -- Archaic and classical Greek temple sculpture and the viewer / Robin Osborne. |
| Summary |
In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The contributors explore the ways in which word and image interact in Greek culture, throwing new light on their many and related functions. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek language -- Writing -- Congresses.
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Signs and symbols -- Greece -- Congresses.
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Written communication -- Greece -- Congresses.
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Art and literature -- Greece -- Congresses.
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Art, Greek -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Rutter, N. K.
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Sparkes, Brian A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Word and image in ancient Greece. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000 0748614060 (DLC) 2001347040 (OCoLC)45350633 |
| ISBN |
0585442002 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585442006 (electronic bk.) |
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9780748679850 (electronic bk.) |
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0748679855 (electronic bk.) |
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0748614060 |
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9780748614066 |
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0748614052 (pbk.) |
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9780748614059 (pbk.) |
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