The Parthenon Frieze, and Other Essays
Author | : Thomas Davidson |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Sculpture |
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Author | : Thomas Davidson |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Sculpture |
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Author | : Thomas Davidson |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-07-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781330665015 |
Excerpt from The Parthenon Frieze, and Other Essays Upon a broken tombstone of the Prime, When youths, who loved the gods, were loved again And rapt from sight, two human forms remain. One, shrunk with years and hoary with their rime, Gropes for the hand of one who sits sublime And, calm in large-limbed youth, prepares to drain The cup of endless life. In vain! in vain! He cannot reach beyond the screen of time. So, Arthur, as our human years go by, I stand and blindly grope for thy dear hand, And listen for a whisper from thy tongue. In vain! in vain! I only hear Love cry: "He feasts with gods upon the eternal strand; For they in whom the gods delight die young." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Thomas Davidson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780781226172 |
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Author | : THOMAS. DAVIDSON |
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Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781033742952 |
Author | : Thomas Davidson |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230276748 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... oidipous tyrannos. That the oldest and most influential university in New England should have brought out, with distinguished success, in her own theatre, an ancient Greek tragedy in the original language, with all the proper equipments of stage, scenery, costume and music, is, in several ways, a most noteworthy event. Educationally considered, it means that the study of ancient Greek, so long a dry, barren encumbrance of the ground, has at last borne fruit, fit to enter as sustenance into the intellectual, moral, and artistic life of the more favoured members of the community. From a literary point of view, it means the revival of an intelligent interest in the robust, earnest, soulstrengthening works of the grand old masters, as opposed to the feeble, pampering, alcoholic love-lore, on which so many mere rhymers and story-tellers nowadays base their lofty titles of poets and men of letters. Lastly, it means that the old supercilious spirit, which regarded paganism as a mere cloud of error, dispelled by the pure light of Christian truth, is giving way to a kindly appreciation of the human as human, of the good and the true, wherever they are found. If such exhibitions are frequently repeated at Cambridge and initiated at other great seats of learning and education, we may hope that in a short time there will issue from our universities a succession of scholarly, philosophical artists, capable of finding for the glad, generous, but only half-grasped ideas, which shape American life, forms as original, perfect, and eternal as those in which Sophokles and his brethren cast the gloomy beliefs that ran through Hellenic life. When that time comes, we shall have a literature as much nobler than that of the Greeks as free love of the good, as...
Author | : Thomas DAVIDSON (Philosopher.) |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : Thomas Davidson |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : James Fergusson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781330510407 |
Excerpt from The Parthenon: An Essay on the Mode by Which Light Was Introduced Into Greek and Roman Temples Although so small a portion of this book is devoted directly to the description of the Parthenon, the name of that celebrated temple has been selected to designate the work, for the same reason that Quatremere de Quincy called his essay on Greek Art 'Le Jupiter Olympien.' His work is practically a treatise on Greek sculpture - especially the toreutic branch of it - as then known, and the temple at Elis and the famous chryselephantine statue of Phidias occupy relatively a smaller portion of his work than the Parthenon does in mine. Had the building been entire at the present day, a different mode of treatment from that I have adopted might have been expedient, and it would have been possible to commence with a description of the temple and devote a greater portion of the work to the elucidation of its peculiarities. As it is, the materials out of which it was - in theory - to be reconstructed had to be quarried from various sources, and their forms and uses ascertained, before their application to the Parthenon could be determined. A vast amount of superincumbent rubbish had also to be cleared away before serviceable materials could be got at and gathered together; but once this was done, a few words seemed to be all that was required to explain the application of the forms and ideas gathered from other sources, to the rehabilitation of the lost or misunderstood portions of that famous temple. So many investigations are now in progress, and so much requires to be done before many of the subjects which are treated of in the following pages can be considered as at all complete, that it is not without considerable reluctance that I publish this work at the present moment. I would not, in fact, hurry it now through the press, but for a feeling that if it is not done now it may possibly not be done at all. The excavations at Eleusis have actually been commenced at last, but are in so incomplete a state, that I have not been able to obtain even a sketch plan of the results obtained. Those of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens have not yet been undertaken. I have not been able during the past year to induce any one to open his eyes and observe those features which have an important bearing on the subject of this investigation at Baalbec and Paestum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author | : A. S. Murray |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2018-11-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780666411402 |
Excerpt from The Sculptures of the Parthenon The interpretation of the two pediments has been, and still is, a subject of much discussion. The name most appropriate for each figure may be argued interminably. But all these discussions revolve round the simple question, Are the figures in the angles of both pediments deities of Olympos, or beings associated with the legendary history of Attica? On that question turns the grandeur of the artistic conception as a whole. We must each decide one way or the other. After that the names of the several figures are of less consequence. Therefore we have dealt briefly with matters of nomenclature all through. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Jenifer Neils |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-02-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521684026 |
While the sculpted Ionic frieze of the Parthenon with its galloping horsemen and classically portrayed gods is reproduced in every art history text and has been much studied by scholars, no single book has yet been devoted to all its myriad aspects. This study by classical archaeologist and art historian Jenifer Neils breaks new ground by considering all aspects of this complex and controversial monument. Although the frieze has been studied for over two hundred years, most scholarship has sought an overall interpretation of the iconography rather than focusing on the sculpture's visual language, essential for a full understanding of the narrative. Neils' study not only decodes the language of the frieze, but also analyzes its conception and design, style and content, as well as its impact on later art. Unusual for its wide-ranging approach to the frieze, this book also brings ethical reasoning to bear on the issue of its possible repatriation as part of the on-going Elgin Marble debate. As one of the foremost examples of the high classical style and the finest expression of mid-fifth century Athenian ideology, the Parthenon frieze is without doubt one of the major monuments of western civilization, and as such deserves to be understood in all its dimensions. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a virtual reality Macromedia Director movie of the complete frieze, based on the plaster casts in the Skulpturhalle in Basel, Switzerland. Developed by Rachel Rosenzweig of the Department of Greek and Roman Art of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the casts are arranged in conformity with Neils' reconstruction and enable the user to view them in succession, as if walking around the Parthenon. The CD-ROM requires a computer running either MAC OS 8.01 or later, or Windows 95 or later.