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Steiner, Deborah Tarn

IMAGES IN MIND Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

Princeton University Press, 2001

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Year of publication
2001
Author
Steiner, Deborah Tarn
Publishers
Princeton University Press
Keyword
Statues Sculpture Social & Cultural Classical Greek & Roman, Greek Literature
Cover description
Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0691044317

Description

Small tears to head of spine. Faint foxing to top of textblock. Dustjacket is protected in plastic sleeve. ; In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice 'good to think with.' '; 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.0 inches; 384 pages