Judith M. Barringer

Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the relationship between architectural sculpture and myth in Classical Greece.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521646475
• ISBN-10: 0521646472
• Artikelnr.: 25006758

Autorenporträt

Judith M. Barringer is Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. The author of The Hunt in Ancient Greece and Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art, she has received awards and fellowships such as the National Endowment for the Humanities at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the British Academy Larger Research Grant, as well as awards from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The temple of Zeus at Olympia, heroic models, and the Panhellenic sanctuary
2. The Athenian Akropolis, female power, and state religion
3. Making heroes in Athenian agora
4. Myth and religion at Delphi
5. The cult of the individual and the realm of the dead.