Myth into Art is a comparative study of mythological narrative in Greek poetry and the visual arts. Thirty of the major myths are surveyed, focusing on Homer, lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. On the artistic side, the emphasis is on Athenian and South Italian vases. The book offers undergraduate students an introduction both to mythology and to the use of visual sources in the study of Greek myth.
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'Shapiro extends to students and their lecturers an extremely compelling invitation to study Greek myth as it should be studied, holistically through the visual as well as the textual documentation.' – Scholia Reviews
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What we call mythology was, for the Greeks, the early history of their own people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Italian, New York, Libation Bearers, British Museum, South Italy, Epic Cycle, Metropolitan Museum, Late Archaic, Magna Graecia, National Museum, Trojan Cycle, Trojan War, Archaic Greek, Kleophrades Painter, Museum of Fine Arts, Asia Minor, Collection of Herbert Cahn, Early Archaic, Fragments of Attic, Late Geometric, Museo Nationale, Peloponnesian War, Pergamon Museum, Theban Cycle New!
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What we call mythology was, for the Greeks, the early history of their own people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Italian, New York, Libation Bearers, British Museum, South Italy, Epic Cycle, Metropolitan Museum, Late Archaic, Magna Graecia, National Museum, Trojan Cycle, Trojan War, Archaic Greek, Kleophrades Painter, Museum of Fine Arts, Asia Minor, Collection of Herbert Cahn, Early Archaic, Fragments of Attic, Late Geometric, Museo Nationale, Peloponnesian War, Pergamon Museum, Theban Cycle New!
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- The Libation Bearers (Prentice-Hall Greek drama series) by Aeschylus on 4 pages
- The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance Series) by Nicholas Rudall on page 161, page 162, and Back Matter
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 64, page 65, and Back Matter
- Greek Vases (Archaeology, History and Classical Studies.) by Michael Vickers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Greek Art (Fourth Edition) (World of Art) by John Boardman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook by Sian Lewis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Athenian Woman: An Iconographic Handbook by Sian Lewis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World) by Loren J. Samons II on page 65, and Back Matter
- Word and Image in Ancient Greece by Keith N. Rutter on page 160, and page 178
- Art and Experience in Classical Greece by Jerome Jordan Pollitt in Back Matter
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