Athens at the Margins (eBook)

Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World

Nathan T. Arrington (Autor)

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2021
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22266-0 (ISBN)

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How the interactions of non-elites influenced Athenian material culture and societyThe seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that goods and knowledge flowed from East to West through cosmopolitan elites. Rejecting this explanation, Athens at the Margins proposes a new narrative of the origins behind the style and its significance, investigating how material culture shaped the ways people and communities thought of themselves.Athens and the region of Attica belonged to an interconnected Mediterranean, in which people, goods, and ideas moved in unexpected directions. Network thinking provides a way to conceive of this mobility, which generated a style of pottery that was heterogeneous and dynamic. Although the elite had power, they were unable to agree on the norms of conspicuous consumption and status display. A range of social actors used objects, contributing to cultural change and to the socially mediated production of meaning. Historiography and the analysis of evidence from a wide range of contexts-cemeteries, sanctuaries, workshops, and symposia-offers the possibility to step outside the aesthetic frameworks imposed by classical Greek masterpieces and to expand the canon of Greek art.Highlighting the results of new excavations and looking at the interactions of people with material culture, Athens at the Margins provocatively shifts perspectives on Greek art and its relationship to the eastern Mediterranean.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 138 b/w illus., 16 color illus. (8-page insert)
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Acropolis Museum • Acropolis of Athens • Akademos • American School of Classical Studies at Athens • Analatos Painter • Ancient Greece • Ancient Greek art • Andron • Angelos Chaniotis • Apollo Belvedere • Archaic Greece • Ashurbanipal • Athenian democracy • Athens • Attica • Barbarian • basileus • Boeotia • Bronze Age • burial • Cemetery • Ceramics • Cilicia • city-state • classical archaeology • Classical Greece • Classical tradition • Conflation • Coroplast (artisan) • Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum • cult cultural history • Cultural Hegemony • Culture of Greece • Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art • Demaratus • Dipylon Master • Disenchantment • dorians • Early Archaic Greece • Eastern Mediterranean • Eastern world • Eleusinion • Eleusis • elite mobility networks • Epigram • Etruscan Civilization • Euphronios • faience • Geography of Greece • Gournia • greek archaeology • Greek art • Greek Democracy • Greek Mythology • Greeks • hellenization • Herodotus • Historical Method • Historicism • Historiography • Homer • Hydria • Iconography • Ionians • Kerameikos • Krater • Late Antiquity • Late Bronze Age collapse • Levant • Loutrophoros • Main City • Meyer Schapiro • Mycenaean Greece • Near East • Necho II • Nessos Painter • Nestor's Cup • Nostoi • Odysseus • Oenochoe • Orientalizing • Orientalizing period • Paphos • Peloponnese • Peloponnese (region) • Peribolos • Periodization • Phaleron cemetery • Phaleron style • Phocylides • Phoenicia • Phrygians • Physiognomy • polis attribution • political spectrum • polyphemus • Pottery • Protoattic pottery • Proto-attic symposion • Protoattic symposion • Proto-attic symposium • Protoattic symposium • Pyxis (vessel) • Scythians • Second-rate • seventh century • seventh-century art • seventh-century Athens • seventh-century burials • Sherd • Sidon • S. P. Morris • spoils system • State Formation • Subjectivity • Supplication • Tartessos • Thebes, Greece • The Black and White Style • The Suppliants (Aeschylus) • Thucydides • tomb • Tyrrhenians • Un art citoyen • Vase • vase-painting
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22266-5 / 0691222665
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22266-0 / 9780691222660