Myth, ethos and actuality: official art in fifth century b.c. athens
Auteur :
Castriota, David
Éditeur :
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN :
9780299133542
Date de publication :
30 déc. 1992
Dimensions :
23,1 x 15,5 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
475 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
5th-century Athenian artists depicted their defeated enemies, the Persians, as barbaric mythic antagonists, while representing themselves as mythical heroes. Castriota interprets these works as vehicles of an official ideology, celebrating and justifying the present in terms of the past.