KOMAST DANCERS ARCHAIC GREEK ART OMCA C

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-957865-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1056 g

Reihe: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology

A stimulating exploration of a set of images common to many regions of the archaic Greek world
Illuminates the archaic practices from which classical Greek drama emerged

Komast figures (literally `revellers') on black-figure vases have long been associated with the worship of Dionysos and the origins of Greek drama. In this fully illustrated study, Tyler Jo Smith takes a fresh look at the evidence for komasts, both on vases and in other artistic media produced throughout Archaic Greece.

She concludes that the meaning of the dancing figures differs between different regions, such as Corinth, Athens, and Laconia. Komasts are instrumental to the spread of the human figure in early Archaic Greek art and a vital link in the story of both visual and festival culture in Greece during the sixth century BC.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classics, classical archaeology, classical art, the history of dance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Tyler Jo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Art, Life, and Performance
2: Beginnings and Corinth
3: Three Groups in Athens
4: Lydos to `the Swinger'
5: Laconia
6: Boeotia
7: East Greece
8: The West
9: Dance, Drink, and Be Merry

Über Autor(innen)

Tyler Jo Smith, Assistant Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Virginia