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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour.
This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia. |
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| Notas: | Poking Fun at Poliadic Cult In the tondo of a cup in Vienna (fig. 62), Hermes leads what appears to be a pig to an altar. It is in fact a dog disguised as a pig. The feet are clearly those of a dog. A genuine sacrifice is depicted on another cup attributed to the same painter, the Epidromos Painter. On this cup in Paris (fig. 63), two youths are sacrificing a pig at an altar beside a tree. While one of them is holding the animal, the other wields a machaira. Pigs were sacrificed to Demeter. T ... Hermaic Cult Hermaic pillars, or herms, were usually rectangular pillars with the head of the god Hermes and an erect phallus. They were found and venerated at crossroads, in domestic gardens, at the palestra, and a number of other places. The herms are found well into the second century AD. A red-figure pelike in Berlin, attributed to the Pan Painter, shows a very unusual herm. It has an extended phallos, which is longer than half the length of its whole body. A large bird is sitting on the ... |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (400 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781107723603 1107723604 9781107731738 1107731739 9781139193290 1139193295 1107720230 9781107720237 1139886614 9781139886611 1107727626 9781107727625 1107728223 9781107728226 9781107658097 1107658098 |