As witnessed by images; the Trojan War tradition in Greek and Etruscan art.

9780801887758

As witnessed by images; the Trojan War tradition in Greek and Etruscan art.

Lowenstam, Steven.

Johns Hopkins U. Press

2008

229 pages

$50.00

Hardcover

N8260

A classicist based in Oregon, Lowenstam (1945-2003) spent his final year of illness refining this manuscript. He contends that during about 650-300 BC, artists depicting themes and scenes from the Trojan War were sometimes recalling the common Homeric legacy of all Greeks, but sometimes responding to contemporary poetic renditions of the same themes. He looks at how artists in Greece, southern Italy, and Etruria rendered such tropes as the ransom of Hektor, the funeral of Patroklos, the ambush of Troilos, and Achilleus' immolation of Trojan youth.

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