A City Of Images : Iconography and Society in Ancient Greece I.B. Tauris Format: Magazine

Format: Magazine

Book Condition: Very GoodFormat:  Hardcover Year:  1954

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Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations

A City Of Images : Iconography and Society in Ancient Greece I.B. Tauris Format: MagazineThis handsome and lavishly illustrated volume invites the reader to explore the exotic and distant world of Greek culture not primarily the conventional literary idea of that culture but the range of experiences presented in its iconography. Between the sixth and fifth centuries B. C., Athenian artisans flooded the Mediterranean world with remarkable decorated vases depicting a large variety of images. Using the resources of social and religious