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The transformation of Athens : painted pottery and the creation of classical Greece

"Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to see-- or...

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Main Author: Osborne, Robin (Author, VerfasserIn)
Corporate Author: Princeton University Press (Verlag)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , [2018]
Series:Martin classical lectures
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Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77fvg
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Transformation of Athens
Author Notes:Robin Osborne
E-Book Packages:JSTOR E-Books in Classical Studies
Table of Contents:
  • The art of transformation
  • Athenian pottery and Athenian culture
  • Changing in the gymnasium
  • Changing the guard
  • Courting change
  • Sacrificing change
  • Drinking to and reveling in change
  • The changing city of Satyrs
  • Morality, politics, and aesthetics
  • The road not taken
  • The transformation of art.