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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Contributor(s): Zanker, Graham (Author), Bamberger, Tom (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0299194507     ISBN-13: 9780299194505
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.95  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2003
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Annotation: Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker offers exciting new interpretations by closely comparing poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander themes in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Ancient & Classical
- History | Ancient - Greece
Dewey: 881.010
LCCN: 2003005678
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.42" W x 9.22" (1.01 lbs) 223 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
 
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