The Art Of The Hekatompedon Inscription And The Birth Of The Stoichedon Style

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The Art of the Hekatompedon Inscription and the Birth of the Stoichedon Style

Author : Patricia A. Butz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004193278
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Hekatompedon Inscription and the Birth of the Stoichedon Style written by Patricia A. Butz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to present the Hekatompedon Inscription at Athens (IG I3 4) as a major monument of Greek art, legitimately on a par with more famous landmarks of the Greek aesthetic tradition like the Parthenon Frieze. Inscribed most probably in the middle of the decade that saw the Greek response to the Persian invasion, the Hekatompedon Inscription has long been recognized for its historical and religious importance. This study looks at the inscription on its own terms: the unique fusion of its visual and textual content in that most Greek of epigraphical layouts, the stoikhedon style. Such an approach leads to the question of origins: where and why was the stoikhedon style formulated and where does the Hekatompedon Inscription stand in that development? Egypt’s influential system of proportions and use of grids will be considered determinative for the very first time.

The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004379436
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on epigraphic texts in order to gauge questions of their placement, presence, and perception: starting with an analysis of the forms of writing and its perception as an act of physical and cultural intervention, the volume moves on to consider the texts’ ubiquity and strategic positioning within epigraphic, literary, and architectural spaces. The contributors rethink modern assumptions about the processes of writing and reading and establish novel ways of thinking about the physical forms of ancient texts.

The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004534512
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a broad chronological and geographic range and a great variety of source types, this volume examines the presence and activities of ancient women in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims.

Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens

Author : Jessica Paga
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190083573
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens written by Jessica Paga and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Akropolis: Monuments and Military Dominance -- The Agora: Form, Function, and Ideology -- The Astu: The Architectural Matrix of the Polis -- The Demes: Delineation and Interconnectivity -- Buildings and Democracy -- Appendix I: Building Chronology in Athens and Attika, 508/7 - 480/79 B.C.E. -- Appendix II: IG I3 4B, The Hekatompedon Decree: Text, Translation, and Brief Commentary -- Appendix III: Dating the Old Bouleuterion and Stoa Basileios.

Commemorating Classical Battles

Author : Brandon Braun
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789259371
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Commemorating Classical Battles written by Brandon Braun and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles, approaching monuments and other mnemonic practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyzes the diachronic development of battlefield, sanctuary, and city spaces, as evidenced by archaeological remains and ancient literary sources. In addition, it explores the experience of the commemorative spaces through the application of theories of space, phenomenology, and social memory. Following a biographical approach, the commemoration of each battle is organized into stages of initial commemoration, official monumentalization, memory curation, memory lapse, and reception. The research has led to several conclusions. While the commemoration of each battle can be divided into stages, these stages are not always discrete. There is variation in the types of commemorations within the stages, dependent on time, surrounding space, and the parties involved. Single commemorations can resonate differently with multiple audiences. The processes within the stage of memory curation lead to the subsequent lapse. The final stage of commemoration for each battle begins with the rediscovery of ancient monuments and continues to this day. The battles of Marathon, Leuktra, and Chaironeia are case studies for three reasons. First, they effectively span the period of Classical Greece (Marathon in 490 BCE to Chaironeia in 338 BCE). Secondly, these battles had different participants, thus allowing a variety of perspectives of both the victorious and the defeated. Lastly, these were battles that left lasting impacts in the material and literary record, making their commemoration relevant not only in antiquity, but also in the modern world.

Citizenship in Classical Athens

Author : Josine Blok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521191459
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Citizenship in Classical Athens written by Josine Blok and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that citizenship in Athens was primarily a religious identity, shared by male and female citizens alike.

Ancient Documents and their Contexts

Author : John Bodel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004273875
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Documents and their Contexts written by John Bodel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Documents and their Contexts contains the proceedings of the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (San Antonio, Texas, 4-5 January 2011). It gathers seventeen papers presented by scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia at the first formal meeting of classical epigraphists sponsored by the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Ranging from technical discussions of epigraphic formulae and palaeography to broad consideration of inscriptions as social documents and visual records, the topics and approaches represented reflect the variety of ways that Greek and Latin inscriptions are studied in North America today. Contributors are: Bradley J. Bitner, Sarah Bolmarcich, Ilaria Bultrighini, Patricia A. Butz, Werner Eck, John Friend, Peter Keegan, Jinyu Liu, Kevin McMahon, John Nicols, Nadya Popov-Reynolds, Carolynn E. Roncaglia, Stephen V. Tracy, Dennis E. Trout, Georgia Tsouvala, Steven L. Tuck, and Arden Williams.

The Origins of Greek Temple Architecture

Author : Alessandro Pierattini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108499473
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Greek Temple Architecture written by Alessandro Pierattini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive study of pre-Archaic Greek temple architecture combines architecture, society, and material culture.

Athenian Lettering of the Fifth Century B.C.

Author : Stephen Victor Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110407639
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Athenian Lettering of the Fifth Century B.C. written by Stephen Victor Tracy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has chapters on methodology, on the writing of the first decrees and laws of the years ca. 515 to 450 B.C., on unique examples of writing of ca. 450 to 400, on the inscribers of the Lapis Primus and Lapis Secundus (IG I3 259-280), and on those of the Attic Stelai (IG I3 421-430). These are followed by studies of 11 individual cutters arranged in chronological order. This study brings order to the study of hands of the fifth century by setting out a methodology and by discussing the attempts of others to identify hands. Another aim is to bring out the individuality of the writing of these early inscribers. It shows that from the beginning the writing on Athenian inscriptions on stone was very idiosyncratic, for all intents and purposes individual writing. It identifies the inscribing of the sacred inventories of Athena beginning about 450 B.C. as the genesis of the professional letter cutter in Athens and traces the trajectory of the profession. While the dating of many inscriptions will remain a matter for scholarly discussion, the present study narrows the dates of many texts. It also pinpoints the origin of the mistaken idea that three-bar sigma did not occur on public documents after the year 446 in order to make those who are not expert more aware that this is not a reliable means of dating.

Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic

Author : Juan Acevedo
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 316159245X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic written by Juan Acevedo and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Acevedo embarks on a semantic journey to track the origin and adventures of the Greek term stoicheion, which for at least eighteen centuries, from Pythagoras to Fibonacci, simultaneously meant "element", "letter", and "numeral". Focusing on this triple meaning and on how it was translated and interpreted in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic - especially in key texts of the Abrahamic faiths- a metaphysical study takes shape. With touches of alchemy and theology, it reveals how a shared fundamental alphanumeric cosmology underlay many basic paradigms of science and faith around the Mediterranean until the advent of the Indo-Arabic numerals broke the "marriage" of letter and numeral. Careful readings of Plato, Philolaos, Nicomachus and Philo, of Genesis and the Sefer Yetsira, of the Qur'an, the Ikhwan al-Safa', and Ibn 'Arabi are all woven together into a synthesis full of implications for many disciplines.

Abstracts of Papers Delivered in Art History Sessions

Author : College Art Association of America. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Abstracts of Papers Delivered in Art History Sessions written by College Art Association of America. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Structure, Image, Ornament

Author : Ralf Von den Hoff
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782973079
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Structure, Image, Ornament written by Ralf Von den Hoff and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda Westervelt and Lorenz Winkler-Horacek. The contents are divided into four sections I. Structure and Ornament; II. Technique and Agency; III. Myth and Narrative and IV. Diffusion and Influence. Highlights include Robin Osbornes discussion of What you can do with a chariot but cant do with a satyr on a Greek temple; Ralf von den Hoffs consideration of the Athenian treasury at Delphi; and Katherine Schwabs presentation of New evidence for Parthenon east metope 14. The papers not only cover a great variety of issues in architectural sculpture but also present a range of case studies from all over the Greek world. The result is an important collection of current research.

Trophies of Victory

Author : T. Leslie Shear Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400881137
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Trophies of Victory written by T. Leslie Shear Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics and culture. By long tradition, the victors commemorated their deliverance by dedicating thank-offerings in the sanctuaries of their gods, and the Athenians erected no fewer than ten new temples and other buildings. Because these buildings were all at some stage of construction during the political ascendency of Perikles, in the third quarter of the fifth century, modern writers refer to them collectively as the Periklean building program. In Trophies of Victory, T. Leslie Shear, Jr., who directed archaeological excavations at the Athenian Agora for more than twenty-five years, provides the first comprehensive account of the Periklean buildings as a group. This richly illustrated book examines each building in detail, including its archaeological reconstruction, architectural design, sculptural decoration, chronology, and construction history. Shear emphasizes the Parthenon's revolutionary features and how they influenced smaller contemporary temples. He examines inscriptions that show how every aspect of public works was strictly controlled by the Athenian Assembly. In the case of the buildings on the Acropolis and the Telesterion at Eleusis, he looks at accounts of their overseers, which illuminate the administration, financing, and organization of public works. Throughout, the book provides new details about how the Periklean buildings proclaimed Athenian military prowess, aggrandized the city's cults and festivals, and laid claim to its religious and cultural primacy in the Greek world.

Greek Letters

Author : Michael S. Macrakis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Greek Letters written by Michael S. Macrakis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by some of the foremost typographic and book history scholars in the world such as Hermann Zapf, Nicolas Barker, and Nicolas Panayotakis, these essays bring to life the rich history and development of the Greek letter form: its role in the history of the printed word and civilization, the urgent need for quality modern fonts, and the challenges faced by the current and future realm of Greek type design. In response to these challenges, the Greek Font Society formed in 1992 to promote and design quality Greek fonts for printing and use on the computer screen. The Society also gathered some of the most respected professionals, designers, and scholars at the first International Symposium on the Evolution of the Greek Alphabet and published the papers presented on these topics, now contained in this volume, Greek Letters.

Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446722X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a wide-ranging study of numbers as a social and cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece, revealing both the instrumentality of numbers to polis life and the complex cultural meanings inherent in their use.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens

Author : Jenifer Neils
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484557
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens written by Jenifer Neils and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

Author : Jaś Elsner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190629630
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Late Latin Literature written by Jaś Elsner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics in Late Antiquity. The Poetics of Late Latin Literature attempts to capture the excitement and vibrancy of the living ancient tradition reinventing itself in a new context in the hands of a series of great Latin writers mainly from the fourth and fifth centuries AD. A series of the most distinguished expert voices in later Latin poetry as well as some of the most exciting new scholars have been specially commissioned to write new papers for this volume.