Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 Bc

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Art made to order; 2. Geometric art comes of age: an archaeology of maturation; 3. Virgin territory: the construction of the maiden; 4. Maiden, interrupted: the art of abduction; 5. The domestication of the warrior; Epilogue: back from the dark.

About the author

Susan Langdon is associate professor of Greek art and archaeology at the University of Missouri. A scholar of early Greek pottery, sculpture and iconography, she curated the exhibition From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer, from which she published the exhibition catalog and New Light on a Dark Age, a volume of papers from the accompanying symposium. She is also coauthor of Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece, I: The Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and Lithic Artifacts.

Summary

This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100–700 BCE. This study offers a comprehensive view of early Greece by recognizing the place of children and women in a warrior-focused society.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Langdon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2010
• EAN: 9780521171922
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17192-2
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Ancient World, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style