Gates of Horn and Ivory. [With plates.].
Author | : Katharine W. MURRAY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1932* |
Genre | : History, Ancient |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Katharine W. MURRAY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1932* |
Genre | : History, Ancient |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth D. S. Lapatin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Mediterranean Region |
ISBN | : 9780198153115 |
Composite statues of gold (chrysos), ivory (elephas), and other precious materials were the most celebrated artworks of classical antiquity. Greek and Latin authors leave no doubt that such images provided a centrepiece for religious and civic life and that vast sums were spent to producethem. A number of these statues were the creations of antiquity's most highly acclaimed artists: Polykleitos, Alkamenes, Leochares, and, of course, Pheidias, whose magnificent Zeus Olympios came to be ranked among the Seven Wonders of the World. Although a few individual images such as Pheidias'Athena Parthenos have been the subject of detailed scholarly analysis, chryselephantine statuary as a class, from the exquisite statuettes of Minoan Crete to the majestic temple images constructed by classical Greek city-states and imitated by the Romans, has not received comprehensive study since1815. This book presents not only the ancient literary and epigraphical evidence for lost statues and examines representations of them in other media, but also assembles and analyses much-neglected physical survivals, elucidating throughout the innovative techniques, such as ivory-bending, employedin their production as well as the variety of social, religious, and political roles they played within the ancient societies that produced them.
Author | : Geoffrey Stephen Kirk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Epic poetry |
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Author | : Clyde S. Kilby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON |
Publisher | : VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS, Aaradhana, Deverkovil 673508 India |
Total Pages | : |
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Genre | : Reference |
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EDITED BY REV. THOMAS DAVIDSON ASSISTANT-EDITOR OF 'CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA' EDITOR OF 'CHAMBERS'S ENGLISH DICTIONARY Since there are many other updated English dictionaries online and otherwise in the digital form, downloading this dictionary of the yesteryears might not be of any use as a means to find the meaning of English words. However to those who would like to know the whereabouts of the pristine-English that was there in pristine-England, this dictionary would be an ideal possession. It was an age when many English letters came in various combined form - the so-called Alphabetic ligatures. Another mentionable item would be insights that can be had on what were original meanings of various English words. There are so-many words whose meaning has altered much over the past few years and decades.