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...

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Main Author: Osborne, Robin, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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.