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Comparative religion --- Iconography --- Art styles --- Classical literature --- Epical, mythological and fictitious figures --- anno 500-1499 --- Antiquity --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- Greek mythology in art --- Griekse mythologie in de kunst --- Mythologie [Griekse ] in de kunst --- Mythologie grecque dans l'art --- Mythology [Greek ] in art --- Art and mythology --- Mythology, Greek, in art --- Art et mythologie --- Art and mythology. --- Mythology, Greek, in art. --- 7.046.1 --- Mythology and art --- Mythology in art --- Mythology --- Iconografie: klassieke mythologie --- 7.046.1 Iconografie: klassieke mythologie

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"Greek myth has played an unparalleled role in the formation of Western visual traditions, for which it has provided a nearly inexhaustible source of forms, symbols, and narratives. This richly illustrated book examines the legacy of Greek mythology in Western art from the classical era to the present. It reveals the range and variety with which individual Greek myths, motifs, and characters have been treated throughout the history of the visual arts in the West. Tracing the emergence, survival, and transformation of key mythological figures and motifs from ancient Greece through the modern era, it explores the enduring importance of such myths for artists and viewers in their own time and over the millennia that followed"--

Comparative religion --- art history --- mythology [literary genre] --- Art --- Greece --- Western Europe --- Art and mythology. --- Mythology, Greek, in art. --- Art et mythologie --- Mythologie grecque dans l'art --- ART / History / Ancient & Classical. --- Mythology, greek, in art. --- Art / history / ancient & classical.

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Myth was the single most popular source for picture making in antiquity. Greek and Roman artists faced a number of challenges in conveying stories in static images. Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity explores the ways that classical artists portrayed a variety of myths. It explains how formulas were devised for certain stories; how these inventions could be adapted, developed and even transferred to other myths; how new forms were created to reflect changes in interpretations; how one myth could be distinguished from another; what links there exist between myths depicted and with daily life and historical propaganda; and the influence of changing tastes, among other issues. Fully illustrated examples are drawn from a wide range of media used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Striking a balance between serious scholarly research and accessible, nontechnical presentation, this book offers a fresh approach to Greek and Roman mythological illustration.

Comparative religion --- Art --- Epical, mythological and fictitious figures --- Antiquity --- Art and mythology. --- Art, Greek. --- Art, Roman. --- Art and mythology --- Art, Greek --- Art, Roman --- Roman art --- Classical antiquities --- Greek art --- Art, Aegean --- Art, Greco-Bactrian --- Mythology and art --- Mythology in art --- Mythology

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Stories about dragons, serpents, and their slayers make up a rich and varied tradition within ancient mythology and folklore. In this sourcebook, Daniel Ogden presents a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources. Some of the dragons featured are well known: the Hydra, slain by Heracles; the Dragon of Colchis, the guardian of the golden fleece overcome by Jason and Medea; and the great sea-serpent from which Perseus rescues Andromeda. But the less well known dragons are often equally enthralling, like the Dragon of Thespiae, which Menestratus slays by feeding himself to it in armor covered in fish-hooks, or the lamias of Libya, who entice young men into their striking-range by wiggling their tails, shaped like beautiful women, at them. The texts are arranged in such a way as to allow readers to witness the continuity of and evolution in dragon stories between the Classical and Christian worlds, and to understand the genesis of saintly dragon-slaying stories of the sort now characteristically associated with St George, whose earliest dragon-fight concludes the volume. All texts, a considerable number of which have not previously been available in English, are offered in new translations and accompanied by lucid commentaries that place the source-passages into their mythical, folkloric, literary, and cultural contexts. A sampling of the ancient iconography of dragons and an appendix on dragon slaying myths from the ancient Near East and India, particularly those with a bearing upon the Greco-Roman material, are also included. This volume promises to be the most authoritative sourcebook on this perennially fascinating and influential body of ancient myth.

Folklore --- Comparative religion --- Dragons --- Dragons in the Bible. --- Mythology, Classical. --- Religious aspects. --- Dragons in the Bible --- Mythology, Classical --- Religious aspects --- Dragons - Folklore --- Dragons - Religious aspects --- Dragon --- Serpents

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Comparative religion --- Iconography --- Pegasus --- Horses --- Horses in art --- Mythology, Greek, in art --- Pegasus (Greek mythology) --- Chevaux --- Chevaux dans l'art --- Mythologie grecque dans l'art --- Pégase (Mythologie grecque) --- Mythology --- Exhibitions --- Mythologie --- Expositions --- 7.046.1 --- -Pegasus (Greek mythology) --- -Mythology, Greek, in art --- -Horses --- -Equus caballus --- Farriery --- Hippology --- Horse --- Domestic animals --- Equus --- Livestock --- Pachyderms --- Hinnies --- Mules --- Mythology, Greek --- Iconografie: klassieke mythologie --- -Exhibitions --- -Iconografie: klassieke mythologie --- 7.046.1 Iconografie: klassieke mythologie --- -7.046.1 Iconografie: klassieke mythologie --- Equus caballus --- Pégase (Mythologie grecque) --- Mythology&delete& --- Art --- iconography --- legendary beings