Narrative and Event in Ancient Art

Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 2nd Printing. Large octavo with black boards in teal and white pictorial jacket; xvi, 368 pages: illustrations, maps; index; 27 cm. Near fine; clean, bright and tight; foxing to bottom edge of book block; in very good (+) jacket; very light edgewear and small chipto bottom edge of rear of wraps; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780521430135, 0521430135

"Narrative and Event in Ancient Art assembles new readings of several of the major monuments of antiquity including the Pergamon Altar, the Apollo Belvedere, and the Francois Tomb, in the context of narrative representation. Focusing on an individual monument, each of the essays provides a model for construing ancient narrative structures through the application of methodological approaches relevant to the problems embedded in the distinctive objects produced by diverse societies. These essays also address the interplay between text and linguistic structure, style as a narrative force, time as a narrative clue, narrative through emblematic versus sequential images, and the observer as a necessary activator of the narrative." --Jacket |

Contents: Narrativity and the Narmer Palette / Whitney Davis. Sennacherib's Lachish narratives / John Malcolm Russell. Some reflections on the rhetoric of Aegean and Egyptian art / Nanno Marinatos. Narrative and image in Attic vase painting: Ajax and Kassandra at the Trojan Palladion / Joan Breton Connelly. Narration and allusion in the Hellenistic Baroque / Andrew Stewart. Narrative structures in the François Tomb / Peter J. Holliday. Some new grounds for narrative: Marcus Antonius's base (the Ara Domitti Ahenobarbi) and Republican biographies / Ann Kuttner. Reading the Augustan city / Diane Favro. The Gemma Augustea: ideology, rhetorical imagery, and the creation of a dynastic narrative / John Pollini. The "Cena Trimalchionis" and biographical narration in Roman middle-class art / Jane Whitehead. .