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Rethinking Greek Religion
Explores 'polis religion' - a leading paradigm in current studies on ancient Greek religion - and shows ways of moving beyond it.
Die Entdeckung des Körpers
The Athenian discovery of the human body and its roles in images from the 8th and 7th centuries BCE furnishes a central discursive perspective for understanding Athenian society. This work begins by analysing the themes portrayed in Athenian imagery, considering the reciprocal influences between body images and social roles. It then goes on to contextualize body images - for example, in terms of the agency of images and their portrayal. On this foundation, changing body images and roles are distilled into a cultural history of early Athenian society.
Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC
Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our literary evidence for archaic Greece reported only what later writers wanted to tell, and so was subject to systematic selection and distortion. This book offers a narrative which acknowledges the later traditions, as traditions, but insists that we must primarily confront the contemporary evidence, which is in large part archaeological and art historical, and must make sense of it in its own term...
Die Dresdner Gipsabgusssammlung im 19. Jahrhundert
Im Jahre 1794 wurden in Dresden die Gipsabgüsse, die knapp zehn Jahre zuvor aus dem Nachlass Anton Raphael Mengs‘ für die Kunsthochschule angekauft worden waren, im Johanneum aufgestellt. Mit ihrer musealen Präsentation vollzog sich eine Transformation in der Bedeutung der Gipsabgüsse von einer preiswerten Kopie zu einem den Originalwerken ebenbürtigen Objekt. Ausgehend von diesem Ereignis wird in der Untersuchung die Entwicklung der Sammlung im 19. Jahrhundert rekonstruiert. Analysierte Reiseberichte, Zeitungsartikel und Besucherstatistiken heben ihre Bedeutung in der lokalen wie nationalen Museumswelt hervor. Insbesondere die Direktorate Hermann Hettners und Georg Treus erwiesen sic...
Athen im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
In diesem Buch werden die archäologischen Befunde Athens zwischen dem späten 8. und frühen 6. Jh. v. Chr. erstmals systematisch zusammengestellt. Die sich daran anschließende Auswertung hat das Ziel, das vorhandene Material in die Kontexte der urbanen Topographie einzuordnen und in Hinblick auf sakrale, soziale und politische Fragestellungen auszuwerten. Die Genese der Polis Athen erhält damit eine neue archäologisch-historische Grundlage.
The Representation of Space in Graeco-Roman Art
This book assesses the role of relief in the representation of space in Graeco-Roman artistic practice and its study – from Winckelmann to the mid-twentieth century – when Classical art developed as a theoretical discipline. The role of relief in the history of ancient sculpture has long been acknowledged, yet the problems posed by an engagement with the representation of space have not been a subject of specific and sustained inquiry. Neither a conventional history nor a comprehensive historiography, this book traces the study of relief – of its formal character, its artistic purpose, its aesthetic significance, and its historical treatment. The contribution to scholarship is three-fo...
Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity
Studies on ancient urbanity either concerns individual buildings or the city as a whole. This volume, instead, addresses a meso-scale of urbanity: the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities. Its temporal focus is on Late Republican and Imperial Italy, and more specifically the cities of Pompeii and Ostia. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods and city quarters as basic categories of design and experience. With the terms ‘neighbourhood and ‘city quarter’ the volume proposes two different methodological approaches: Neighbourhood here refers to the face-to-face relation between people living next to each other – thus the small-scale environment centred around a house and an individual. Neighbourhoods thus do not constitute a (collectively defined) urban territory with clear borders, but are rather constituted by individual experiences. In contrast, city quarters are understood as areas that share certain characteristics.
Histories of Peirene
The Peirene Fountain as described by its first excavator, Rufus B. Richardson, is "the most famous fountain of Greece." Here is a retrospective of a wellspring of Western civilization, distinguished by its long history, service to a great ancient city, and early identification as the site where Pegasus landed and was tamed by the hero Bellerophon. Spanning three millennia and touching a fourth, Peirene developed from a nameless spring to a renowned source of inspiration, from a busy landmark in Classical Corinth to a quiet churchyard and cemetery in the Byzantine era, and finally from free-flowing Ottoman fountains back to the streams of the source within a living ruin. These histories of Pe...
