The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.

by Hurwit, Jeffrey M.

• ISBN13: 9780801494017
• ISBN10: 080149401X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-01-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

This handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born.

Table of Contents

Perface	9	(2)
Abbreviations	11	(4)
Archaios	15	(18)
Origins and Promises: Poet and Painter in the Dark Age	33	(38)
Palace to Polis, Bronze to Iron	34	(12)
The Origins of Hexameter Epic	46	(7)
The Origins of Representation	53	(18)
The Idea of Order, 760--700	71	(54)
Akhilleus' Shield	71	(2)
The Polis Detected	73	(12)
Homeric Questions	85	(8)
Formula and Foreground: Homer and the Dipylon Style	93	(13)
Lions and Heroes: The Origins of Narrative	106	(19)
The Edge of Disorder: The Seventh Century	125	(78)
Originality and the Orient	125	(10)
Lyric Poetry, Signatures, and Social Change	135	(15)
Diversity and Narrative Experiment	150	(29)
Egypt, the Temple, and the Kouros	179	(24)
Golden Ages: Ionia and Athens in the Sixth Century	203	(70)
Anaximander's Map	203	(7)
The Ionian Temple	210	(4)
Solonian Athens	214	(17)
Nearchos, Megethos, and Homer	231	(3)
Peisitratos and Athens	234	(2)
The Archaic Acropolis	236	(12)
The Golden Age	248	(5)
Archaios	253	(8)
The Peisistratids and the Poets	261	(12)
Revolution: Red Figure and Relief Sculpture in the Late Sixth Century	273	(47)
The Origins of Democracy	273	(7)
The Red and the Black	280	(12)
Late Archaic Relief and the Community of the Arts	292	(15)
The Limits of the Revolution	307	(2)
Seeming	309	(2)
Theseus and Athens	311	(9)
The Sense of a Beginning	320	(37)
The Shadow of Persia	320	(3)
Between the Wars	323	(9)
The Last Act	332	(4)
Art and Destruction	336	(21)
Glossary of Greek Words and Technical Terms	357	(4)
Index	361