The Transformation of Athens : Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece /
Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to see, or did they...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered)
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Table of Contents:
- The art of transformation
- Athenian pottery and Athenian culture
- Changing in the gymnasium
- Changing the guard
- Courting change
- Sacrificing change
- Drinking to and reveling in change
- The changing city of Satyrs
- Morality, politics, and aesthetics
- The road not taken
- The transformation of art.