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The Transformation of Athens - Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Hardcover)
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The Transformation of Athens - Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Hardcover)
Series: Martin Classical Lectures
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How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the
transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop
fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic
sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery
of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the
late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to
see--or did they come to see the world differently? In this
lavishly illustrated and engagingly written book, Robin Osborne
argues that these remarkable changes are the best evidence for the
shifting nature of classical Greek culture. Osborne examines the
thousands of surviving Athenian red-figure pots painted between 520
and 440 BC and describes the changing depictions of soldiers and
athletes, drinking parties and religious occasions, sexual
relations, and scenes of daily life. He shows that it was not
changes in each activity that determined how the world was shown,
but changes in values and aesthetics. By demonstrating that changes
in artistic style involve choices about what aspects of the world
we decide to represent as well as how to represent them, this book
rewrites the history of Greek art. By showing that Greeks came to
see the world differently over the span of less than a century, it
reassesses the history of classical Greece and of Athenian
democracy. And by questioning whether art reflects or produces
social and political change, it provokes a fresh examination of the
role of images in an ever-evolving world.
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