Art and Myth in Ancient Greece by T H Carpenter
There is no surviving account in ancient Greek literature of of stories as important as the fall of Troy or Theseus and the Minotaur. It is to visual sources that we have to turn for much of our knowledge of the myths. Vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and and stone often pre-date reference to the myths in literature or offer alternative versions to the familiar accounts; always they throw light on the way the Greeks understood the stories of gods and heroes.
T. H. Carpenter is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Ohio University where he has taught since 1997. He was awarded a master’s degree in theology from Harvard and after earning his D.Phil. in classical archaeology at Oxford, he worked for four years as chief researcher at the Beazley Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Professor Carpenter’s other books include Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-century Athens and Mythology, Greek and Roman.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500202364 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500202362 |
| Title | Art and Myth in Ancient Greece |
| Author | T H Carpenter |
| Series | World Of Art |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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