Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art)

by Thomas H. Carpenter

Book Overview

Here is the first scholarly, comprehensive and succinct survey of the treatment of myth by the artists of ancient Greece. With its copious illustrations, it forms an indispensable and unrivaled... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500202362
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Missing pages and images

Just got around to reading this book for an Art history class, and was completely disappointed when I found out some images missing due to torn pages. Received the book as so. Needed to study some images and the pages with the figures were missing.

informative overview of ancient Greek art

This is great as a nice introductory survey of artwork, some myth, and some history of ancient Greece. Carpenter divides the book into chapters and sections according to important characters (heroes, Olympian gods) and events (Trojan War and its aftermath). In each, he provides a good overview, brings in historical and contextual information to provide narratives to the relevant artworks he provides at the end of the section (which is rather inconvenient to have to keep flipping the pages if you don't know what he's referring to). Themes, characterization, attributes, trajectories etc etc can all found in this book which is quite compact for the amount of information it provides.

Good basic introduction

A good undergraduate source of the visual images that are one survival form of the classical myths. Basic information about ancient art gives the reader just enough knowledge to understand technically why certain traits appear, such as the different "color" of males and females. Packed with pictures, it is an excellent source for both classical studies and art history at the undergraduate level.