"Great events of myth such as the Trojan War and outstanding figures like Herakles, Oedipus, Medea or the great Olympian Gods have a firm place in the cultural consciousness of the present day. At the same time, the Greek myths play a prominent role in the study of the Classical…
by Ulfers, Friedrich, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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In the fifth century B.C.E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern scholars have traditionally des…
Modern scholars have traditionally described the emergence of the classical style in Greek sculpture as a steady march of progress, but this account assumes the impossible: that the early Greeks were working tirelessly toward a style of which they had no prior knowledge.
In the fifth century B.C.E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern scholars have traditionally des…
Il Partenone, il più celebrato dei templi greci, costruito sull'Acropoli nel V secolo a.C. in onore di Atena, custodiva una statua colossale della dea in oro e avorio, simbolo dell'egemonia della città sull'Egeo. Ma quanto costò alle casse pubbliche un'opera del genere? Un'ipote…
"Why did the Greeks of the archaic and early Classical period join in choruses that sang and danced on public and private occasions? This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of representations of chorality in the poetry, art and material remains of early Greece in order to de…
