Spotlighting superb examples of classical Greek art together with recent findings in anthropology, social history, psychology, classics, and classical archaeology, Pandora offers a multi-faceted look at women in myth, ritual, and daily life in classical Greece. In this catalogue, which was written to accompany an international traveling exhibition organized by the Walters Art Gallery, Ellen Reeder turns to classical Greek marbles, bronzes, terracottas, and vases to help illustrate the ways in which women were perceived ...
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Spotlighting superb examples of classical Greek art together with recent findings in anthropology, social history, psychology, classics, and classical archaeology, Pandora offers a multi-faceted look at women in myth, ritual, and daily life in classical Greece. In this catalogue, which was written to accompany an international traveling exhibition organized by the Walters Art Gallery, Ellen Reeder turns to classical Greek marbles, bronzes, terracottas, and vases to help illustrate the ways in which women were perceived and how they lived. The discussion is enhanced through interpretive essays written for this catalogue by a group of eminent classicists and historians. Reeder finds a particular emphasis on myths dealing with the unmarried maiden and the difficulty of the transition to marriage and motherhood- as exemplified in the stories of Danae, Thetis, Atalanta, and Amymone. She also explores images of containers and untamed animals as metaphors for women; rituals involving women, such as the wedding and the cult of the Little Bears at Brauron; the character and cult of goddesses; and the close association of women with textiles. The catalogue contains interpretive essays by Sally Humphreys, Mary Lefkowitz, Fran???ois Lissarrague, John Oakley, Margot Schmidt, H. A. Shapiro, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Andrew Stewart, and Froma Zeitlin. The examples of art are drawn from more than fifty collections in fourteen countries and feature both familiar masterpieces and previously inaccessible works.
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Publisher:
Walters Art Gallery & Princeton University Press
Published:
1995
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17349905754
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Very Good+ Some foxing to rear wrap.; Isbn: 0691011249. Written to accompany an international traveling exhibition organized by the Walters Art Gallery, this volume examines the imagery of classical Greek marbles, bronzes, terracottas, and vases in order to understand how women were perceived and how they lived; 11.0 X 9.8 X 1.3 inches; 432 pages.
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Quarto 431pp. hard cover with dust jacket in VG/VG condition. Shelf wear and bumping. Dust jacket has some rubbing to extremities. DJ has two small soiling spots on spine, and one on cover. DJ wrapped in protective brodart. Blue cloth covered boards are clean. Small pencil mark on text block. Title page has closed tears along hinge. Text has minimal age toning to extremity of pages. Text is clean and binding is tight. Text has many color and some black and white illustrations. Shelved in Ancient Art. Spine is white with red text. 1241857. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Good. Slight bow in spine, jacket slightly soiled in the front. Pages clean and unmarked, binding tight. Pages are crisp as if book has not been opened or used many times.
