ISBN: 9780495908418

This volume explores how the Greeks created and re-created their past in physical terms in both objects and images: those that are recoverable, those that are mentioned in texts, or those… Plus…

This volume explores how the Greeks created and re-created their past in physical terms in both objects and images: those that are recoverable, those that are mentioned in texts, or those that may be imagined. It offers insights into the making of myth and the exceptional imagination of a people building the first modern civilization out of the relics of the past. The ancient Greeks drew upon their phyical environment not just to illustrate the past but also in many ways to invent: massive fossil bones were the remains of giants; strange rocks were petrified heroines; Bronze Age walls and tombs were the work of titans; and artefacts from the past became Achilles spear, Helens necklace and Hercules cup. The Greeks could point to where Poseidon struck the Acropolis with his trident, to Athenas olive tree, to Odysseus cave in Ithaca. They worked out what Oeidipus Sphinx looked like, and found Memnon crying to his mother Dawn in an Egyptian statue. It all enhanced their sense of Greekness and history, and it attracted the Roman tourist too: Julius Caesar was ned to tread carefully in the long grass at Troy lest he step on Hectors ghost., Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Edition Description: First Edition, Publication Date: 2002-12-31, Language: English, Publication Year: 2002-12-31, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Cms: 10.5X1X7.75, ISBN-10: 0500051151, ISBN-13: 9780495908418, SKU: SONG0500051151, EAN: 9780495908418, Thames and Hudson<

2011, ISBN: 9780495908418

Trade paperback, D'occasion, bon état, Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or hig… Plus…

Trade paperback, D'occasion, bon état, Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes)., [PU: Cengage Learning]<

2011, ISBN: 049590841X

[EAN: 9780495908418], D'occasion, [SC: 13.02], [PU: Cengage Learning], Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less, Books