vase.jpg. A French authority on the relationship of art and society in the ancient Greek world will give a public lecture titled “Images and ritual in ancient Greece” at the University of New England this week. Professor François ...

Some of the many mythological scenes depicted on this vase include the crane dance of Theseus, a slithery dance which he choreographs and performs after slaying the Minotaur; the Calydonian boar hunt, in which Greek heroes try to rid a ...

Greek vases of Etruscan provenance abound in the Art Institute's collection, every one of them a woefully missed opportunity to learn more about two areas of the ancient world. What was it that Cicero said? "It is simply arrogant to say ...

As there are only a few written sources dating from before the 5th Century BC the many images of Dionysos on Greek vases may well offer a genuine approach to the meaning given by the ancient viewer. This book explores the earliest ...

Consequently Francois arrives late for an auction at which he disregards his partner’s advice and on impulse purchases a piece of ancient Greek pottery. This huge vase was a tribute from one friend to another on his death. ...

Darius' palace was an architectural amalgam of Egyptian, ancient Near Eastern and Greek styles, shrewdly designed to reflect artistically the cosmopolitan nature of his empire. Stone Relief Showing Gift-bearers with a Vase from ...

... which the Met only returned to Greece in 2008. When the Met paid $1 million USD in 1972 for the vase, looters ravaged ancient sites in search of new items to sell, placing much of the responsibility for the destruction of ancient ...

... heroes Oedipus and Orestes would have remained obscure. Mortal mothers of other legendary heroes had important (if lesser) roles in the ancient Greek epics of Homer and drama of the tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. ...

Hermary suggests that suitable offerings to Aphrodite were liquids, such as wine, water and juice, as well as grain, fruit and vegetables as recorded in some ancient Greek sources. Appendix 1 (Amandry) publishes and partly illustrates ...

They ignored both Archaic Greek art and the works of Late Antiquity. The Rococo art of ancient Palmyra came as a revelation, through engravings in Wood’s The Ruins of Palmyra. Even Greece was all-but-unvisited, a rough backwater of the ...