Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Date: 1997. Hardcover. 0198150644 . Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. Review of book (by Jenifer Neils- also her copy) tipped in. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 0.85 x 8.75 x 5.62 Inches; 304 pages; Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth - the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra, the reunion of Helen and Menelaos, and the escape of Aineias - as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic, fifth-century Athenian drama, and Athenian black- and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one another and intertwined them with other chapters in the story of Troy. The author offers the first comprehensive demonstration of the narrative centrality of the Ilioupersis myth within the corpus of Trojan epic poetry, and the first systematic study of pictorial juxtapositions of Ilioupersis scenes on painted vases. . 1997. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198150644 9780198150640 [CA]

Oxford University Press 1997 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket 0198150644. Dustjacket has very minor shelfwear. Review of book (by Jenifer Neils-also her copy) tipped in.; Oxford Classical Monographs; 0.85 x 8.75 x 5.62 Inches; 304 pages; Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth-the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra, the reunion of Helen and Menelaos, and the escape of Aineias-as witnessed in Archaic Greek epic, fifth-century Athenian drama, and Athenian black-and red-figure vase painting. It focuses in particular on the narrative artistry with which poets and painters balanced these episodes with one another and intertwined them with other chapters in the story of Troy. The author offers the first comprehensive demonstration of the narrative centrality of the Ilioupersis myth within the corpus of Trojan epic poetry, and the first systematic study of pictorial juxtapositions of Ilioupersis scenes on painted vases.

ISBN10: 0198150644, ISBN13: 9780198150640, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Hardcover
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 1997]