Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art

Explores how rhetorical techniques helped to produce innovations in art of the Hellenistic courts at Pergamon and Alexandria.

List of contents

1. Rhetoric, innovation, and the courts; 2. Narrative in the Telephos Frieze; 3. Personification in the Archelos Relief; 4. Ekphrasis in Soso's Unswept Room mosaic; 5. Conclusion.

About the author

Kristen Seaman is Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. She is the co-editor of Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2017) and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities

Summary

The intended readers of this book are students and scholars in the fields of art history, classics, archaeology and ancient history, as well as others who read books in these areas. Drawing upon art, archaeology, literature, and history, it examines well-known artworks that interest a range of readers.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen Seaman, Kristen (University of Oregon) Seaman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108490917
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49091-7
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Architecture, Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, 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