New light on a dark age : exploring the culture of geometric Greece / edited by Susan Langdon.

Contributor(s):

Langdon, Susan Helen, 1952- [editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1997.Description: xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0826210996

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

938.01

Contents:

Introduction/ Susan Langdon -- The art of citizenship/ Ian Morris -- Aspects of Athenian grave cult in the Age of Homer/Barbara Bohen -- Greek and Near Eastern art in the Age of Homer/ Sarah P. Morris -- Thiasos and Marzeah: ancestor cult in the Age of Homer/ Jane B. Carter -- Cult in Iron Age Attica/ Merle Langdon -- The archaeology of cult in Geometric Greece: Ionian temples, altars, and dedications/ Christopher G. Simon -- Oral tradition and Homeric art: the Hymn to Demeter/ John Miles Foley -- From picture to myth, from myth to picture: prolegomena to the invention of Mythic representation in Greek art/ Barry B. Powell -- The shield of Achilles: ends of the Iliad and beginnings of the Polis/ Gregory Nagy.

Summary: "As scholars have made new discoveries and formulated new archaeological theories regarding the birth of classical civilizations during the past twenty years, interest in Geometric Greece has been renewed. Representing the most recent and the best scholarly work in the field, the nine essays skillfully assembled by Susan Langdon in New Light on a Dark Age were originally presented at a symposium held on the University of Missouri, Columbia campus in conjunction with the exhibition From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer. These essays, by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, reflect a diversity of approaches to studying the development of the early Iron Age. The cover four major topics: evidence for the rise of the polis, sources and uses of artistic form and iconography, developments in cults around Greece, and issues of poetry and narrative. Liking these topics are the themes of social change; mortuary practices; growth and use of sacred places; social, literary, and artistic applications of style; and Greece and the outside world. Focusing specifically on developments within Greece and incorporating critical new assessments of archaeological, artistic, and literary evidence, New Light on a Dark Age makes an important contribution to the rapidly changing study of the Dark Age in Greece." -- Back cover.

List(s) this item appears in: Anne Stewart's Collection

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	938.01 NEW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000011022

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-239) and index.

"As scholars have made new discoveries and formulated new archaeological theories regarding the birth of classical civilizations during the past twenty years, interest in Geometric Greece has been renewed. Representing the most recent and the best scholarly work in the field, the nine essays skillfully assembled by Susan Langdon in New Light on a Dark Age were originally presented at a symposium held on the University of Missouri, Columbia campus in conjunction with the exhibition From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer.
These essays, by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, reflect a diversity of approaches to studying the development of the early Iron Age. The cover four major topics: evidence for the rise of the polis, sources and uses of artistic form and iconography, developments in cults around Greece, and issues of poetry and narrative. Liking these topics are the themes of social change; mortuary practices; growth and use of sacred places; social, literary, and artistic applications of style; and Greece and the outside world.
Focusing specifically on developments within Greece and incorporating critical new assessments of archaeological, artistic, and literary evidence, New Light on a Dark Age makes an important contribution to the rapidly changing study of the Dark Age in Greece." -- Back cover.