Overview
This first in-depth account of Euripides and the visual arts demonstrates how the tragedian used language to visual effect, whether through allusion or actual references to objects, motifs built around real or imaginary objects, or the use of technical terminology. The evidence presented in this study corroborates the concern for realism and the genre detail for which Euripides is parodied in Aristophanes' Frogs and presents him as a man of his time, like Socrates, fully versed in the ways and means of the visual arts as well as the verbal. In revealing the extent of the visual inclination of Euripides' language, this study reflects upon the larger dialogue between text and image, image and text.
Full Product Details
Author: Mary C. Stieber
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 327
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9789004189065
ISBN 10: 9004189068
Pages: 494
Publication Date: 10 December 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Euripides and the Language of Craft is a long, extremely thorough, and overall successful study. Its results will be valuable to Euripidean scholars, more so to the specialist than to the novice. [...] this book advances and deepens our understanding of Euripidean language and poetic technique, and of the world in which Euripides lived and that inspired him. Mary Stieber is to be thanked for crossing disciplinary boundaries by bringing her art-historical and archaeological expertise to the study of Euripides, a poet most suitable for this kind of treatment, as this book makes clear. Markus Dubischar in BMCR, 04.05.2012
""Euripides and the Language of Craft is a long, extremely thorough, and overall successful study. Its results will be valuable to Euripidean scholars, more so to the specialist than to the novice. [...] this book advances and deepens our understanding of Euripidean language and poetic technique, and of the world in which Euripides lived and that inspired him. Mary Stieber is to be thanked for crossing disciplinary boundaries by bringing her art-historical and archaeological expertise to the study of Euripides, a poet most suitable for this kind of treatment, as this book makes clear. Markus Dubischar in BMCR, 04.05.2012
Author Information
Mary Stieber, Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, Princeton University, is Associate Professor of Art History at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She is the author of The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai (Texas, 2004).
