- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
-
Part I A Credo -
Chapter 1 Archaeology -
Chapter 2 Greek Archaeology and Greek History -
Chapter 3 The New Archaeology and the Classical Archaeologist -
Chapter 4 A Paradigm Shift in Classical Archaeology? -
Chapter 5 Separate Tables? A Story of Two Traditions within One Discipline -
Part II The Early Iron Age in Greece -
Chapter 6 Metalwork as Evidence for Immigration in the Late Bronze Age -
Chapter 7 The Coming of the Iron Age in Greece: Europe's Earliest Bronze / Iron Transition -
Chapter 8 The Euboeans in Macedonia: A New Precedent for Westward Expansion? -
Chapter 9 The Rejection of Mycenaean Culture and the Oriental Connection -
Chapter 10 An Historical Homeric Society? -
Part III The Early Polis at Home and Abroad -
Chapter 11 Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek State -
Chapter 12 Heavy Freight in Archaic Greece -
Chapter 13 Interaction by Design: The Greek City State -
Chapter 14 The Economics of Dedication at Greek Sanctuaries -
Chapter 15 Archaeology and the Study of the Greek City -
Chapter 16 The Nature and Standing of the Early Western Colonies -
Part IV The Early Polis at War -
Chapter 17 The Hoplite Reform and History -
Chapter 18 The Historical Significance of Fortification in Archaic Greece -
Chapter 19 The ‘Hoplite Reform’ Revisited -
Part V Early Greek Art -
Chapter 20 Poet and Painter in Eighth-century Greece -
Chapter 21 Narration and Allusion in Archaic Greek Art -
Chapter 22 The Uses of Writing on Early Greek Painted Pottery -
Chapter 23 Pausanias and the Chest of Kypselos -
Part VI Archaeological Survey -
Chapter 24 Survey Archaeology and the Rural Landscape of the Greek City -
Chapter 25 Rural Burial in the World of Cities - Index
Poet and Painter in Eighth-century Greece
Poet and Painter in Eighth-century Greece
- Chapter:
- (p.365) Chapter 20 Poet and Painter in Eighth-century Greece
- Source:
- Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece
- Author(s):
Anthony Snodgrass
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
The relationship between poetry and the visual arts is seldom close and never simple. But special difficulties attend the study of it in the eighth century BC in Greece, when evidence is not only in excessively short supply but, when it does come, is almost by definition ambiguous. On the whole, regarding the question of the interpretation of late geometric vase-paintings and other eighth-century art there are well-established opposing positions: each new discovery finds a different interpretation on the part of what may be called the optimists — those who seek for correspondences between Homer's epics and the visual arts — and of the sceptics, who habitually argue that there is no evidence for anything of the kind. Each party appears to have found an outlet for the promulgation of its view, inasmuch as many general or semi-popular accounts of geometric and other early Greek art present it as having a major mythological content derived from epic poetry.
Keywords: Greece, poetry, visual arts, vase-paintings, optimists, sceptics, epics, Homer
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
-
Part I A Credo -
Chapter 1 Archaeology -
Chapter 2 Greek Archaeology and Greek History -
Chapter 3 The New Archaeology and the Classical Archaeologist -
Chapter 4 A Paradigm Shift in Classical Archaeology? -
Chapter 5 Separate Tables? A Story of Two Traditions within One Discipline -
Part II The Early Iron Age in Greece -
Chapter 6 Metalwork as Evidence for Immigration in the Late Bronze Age -
Chapter 7 The Coming of the Iron Age in Greece: Europe's Earliest Bronze / Iron Transition -
Chapter 8 The Euboeans in Macedonia: A New Precedent for Westward Expansion? -
Chapter 9 The Rejection of Mycenaean Culture and the Oriental Connection -
Chapter 10 An Historical Homeric Society? -
Part III The Early Polis at Home and Abroad -
Chapter 11 Archaeology and the Rise of the Greek State -
Chapter 12 Heavy Freight in Archaic Greece -
Chapter 13 Interaction by Design: The Greek City State -
Chapter 14 The Economics of Dedication at Greek Sanctuaries -
Chapter 15 Archaeology and the Study of the Greek City -
Chapter 16 The Nature and Standing of the Early Western Colonies -
Part IV The Early Polis at War -
Chapter 17 The Hoplite Reform and History -
Chapter 18 The Historical Significance of Fortification in Archaic Greece -
Chapter 19 The ‘Hoplite Reform’ Revisited -
Part V Early Greek Art -
Chapter 20 Poet and Painter in Eighth-century Greece -
Chapter 21 Narration and Allusion in Archaic Greek Art -
Chapter 22 The Uses of Writing on Early Greek Painted Pottery -
Chapter 23 Pausanias and the Chest of Kypselos -
Part VI Archaeological Survey -
Chapter 24 Survey Archaeology and the Rural Landscape of the Greek City -
Chapter 25 Rural Burial in the World of Cities - Index
