- Hardcover: 355 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Feb 25 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521411858
- ISBN-13: 978-0521411851
- Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 17.4 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 912 g
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These specially commissioned essays offer a radical and fresh appraisal of how ancient Greek art was looked at, written about and discussed in antiquity. The first section focuses on fifth-century culture, examining painted pottery, architecture and sculpture, and theatrical uses of set-piece descriptions. The second section turns to Hellenistic culture and literary artists' self-conscious exploration of new conditions of viewing and writing about viewing in epigrams, books on travel, and accounts of imaginary museums.
Book Description
These specially commissioned essays offer a radical and fresh appraisal of how ancient Greek art was looked at, written about and discussed in antiquity. The first section examines fifth-century pottery and sculpture, architecture and theatrical set pieces. Second section explores Hellenistic culture and literary writings, epigrams and books on travel.
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a reader from San Cristobal is also wrong, Feb 20 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Hardcover)
I can't comment on the book. However I must point out to anyone who has read the two other vicious reviews/character assasinations that Simon Goldhill is a profoundly good man.
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You must read this review before you proceed., Mar 5 2001
By MR A SEDDON - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Hardcover)
The fact that you are even reading this review indicates that you are considering buying it. Please, I beg you, listen to me - I have something vitally important to say. This 'book' sullies the good name of Greek scholarship. That the other academics involved allowed themselves to appear in a book with Simon Goldhill should cause us to scorn and dimiss them - from their jobs, should they repeat this offence.
His filthy chapter is offensive, unpleasant, depraved, and yet somehow also excruciatingly boring - almost coma-inducingly so. Every word drips with the bearded contempt he has for women, for Greeks, for life itself.
This book does not only sully the name of Greek scholarship - it sullies the good name of drivel. It plumbs new depths for the human species. I beg you not to buy it, ever.
For the Greeks, for those who have gone, and for yourselves: just say, "Goldhill: never!" We must fight him in our lecture halls, we must fight him in our libraries, and we must never surrender.
If we resist him now, if we defeat this menace, then even if Greek scholarship lasts for a thousand years, people will still say: this was our finest hour.
1 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I don't agree with A. Seddon's review., Mar 12 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Hardcover)
I don't agree with the review that has been posted on this site. In a paranoid and weird way, it seems to accuse the author of being a member of the far right. I think that is cruel and unjustified. However, it is fair to say that Simon Goldhill - as the academic consensus internationally indicates - is simply (a) a profoundly unpleasant man, and (b) a pretty useless scholar.So, criticise him within this framework - as a failed academic and a failed human being. But don't make accusations about his political outlook which cannot be derived from his scholarship. Unless Mr Seddon knows something we don't?
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