The Iliad in a Nutshell - Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae

Zusatztext This is a remarkable and challenging book, full of learning and imagination ... Squire successfully challenges much of the received wisdom about the Tabulae Iliacae, provoking us to look at them anew even when we may not agree with his take on them. Informationen zum Autor Dr. Michael Squire is Reader in Classical Art at King's College, London. Klappentext A new, illustrated study of the Iliac tablets, a group of objects inscribed in miniature with epic episodes. Like the tablets themselves, Michael Squire tackles major themes through small ones, by relating their production to macroscopic problems of signification in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Zusammenfassung A new, illustrated study of the Iliac tablets, a group of objects inscribed in miniature with epic episodes. Like the tablets themselves, Michael Squire tackles major themes through small ones, by relating their production to macroscopic problems of signification in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Opening sesame: the book in a nutshell 2: Putting the pieces together 3: Mastering Theodorean techne 4: Choosing your own adventure 5: Turning the tables 6: The art and poetics of scale 7: Ecphrastic circles 8: Taking the tablets

Product details

• Authors: Michael Squire, Michael (King's College London) Squire, Squire Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9780199602445
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960244-5
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style