Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: World of Art Subject / Poetry Katherine Bernhardt

Katherine Bernhardt

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Art and Myth in Ancient Greece: World of Art Subject / Poetry Katherine BernhardtA comprehensive, scholarly yet succinct illustrated survey of myth as it appears in Greek art. The Greek myths are so much part of our culture that we tend to forget how they entered it in the first place. Visual sources vase paintings, engraved gems and sculpture in bronze and stone often pre date references to the myths in literature, or offer alternative, unfamiliar tellings. In some cases visual art provides our only evidence, as there is no