9780801411359 - From Myth to Icon: Reflections on Greek Ethical Doctrine in Literature and Art (Study in Classical Philology) de North, Helen F. (10 resultados)

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Volume 40. Red cloth covered hardcover with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has a 0.5 cm closed tear at the upper lefthand corner on front cover. Dust jacket was placed in a clear cover after photographing. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes a list of abbreviations, appendix and an index. 281 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A distinguished classicist examines some of the ways in which certain Greek ethical concepts, especially those related to soph-osyne (self-knowledge, self-restraint, moderation) and the other Platonic virtues, are reflected in mythology, politics and education, oratory, and the visual arts. Helen North considers how the Platonic virtues were regarded, how they affected the understanding of political and social life, how they were embodied in mythical figures and expressed in mythical and historical or semi-historical exemplary accounts, and how they were portrayed in art at certain important stages of their development. She moves from archaic Greek myth in Chapter 1 through the political and rhetorical applications of sophrosyne/ temperantia in classical Athens and Rome, which she treats in two central chapters.In a final chapter, concerned chiefly with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, she returns to some of the early myths and exemplary figures and shows how they survived, together with allegories and symbols popularized in the postclassical period, in religious and secular art into the eighteenth century. Professor North's aim, as she says in her preface, is to provide "a kind of Ariadne's thread to serve as a guide through the labyrinthine iconography of sophrosyne/ temperantia all the way from its beginnings in the coins and sarcophagi of late antiquity to its end in such specimens as the Reynolds window for the Ante Chapel of New College, Oxford, and Canova's tomb for Pope Clement XIV in Rome." Bringing together a wealth of material from many disciplines, Professor North's book offers fresh perspectives on the ways in which the Greeks and Romans interpreted ethical ideals. Like her Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature (Cornell University Press, 1966), it is scrupulously documented and engagingly written.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Foxing to textblock. Gift inscription from author to Carolyn [Dewald] on ffep. DJ has 1 closed tear.; Examination of moderation and self-control in Greek literature.; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Vol. XL; 288 pages; Signed by Author.

Condición: as new. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1979. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. 281,[1]p. : ill, facsims. ; 24 cm. Based on the author's thesis, Cornell, 1945 Index. - Lit.opg. Cornell studies in classical philology ; vol. 40 Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780801411359. Keywords : CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY,

Condición: Gut. Ill.; 281 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Note on front endpaper. Otherwise good and clean. - Anmerkung auf Vorsatzblatt. Sonst gut und sauber. - A distinguished classicist examines some of the ways in which certain Greek ethical concepts, especially those related to sophrosyne (self-knowledge, self-restraint, moderation) and the other Platonic virtues, are reflected in mythology, politics and education, orators, and the visual arts. Helen North considers how the Platonic virtues were regarded, how they affected the understanding of political and social life, how they were embodied in mythical figures and expressed in mythical and historical or semihistorical exemplars accounts, and how they were portrayed in art at certain important stages of their development. She moves from archaic Greek myth in Chapter 1 through the political and rhetorical applications of sophrosyne/ temperantia in classical Athens and Rome, which she treats in two central chapters. In a final chapter, concerned chiefly with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, she returns to some of the early myths and exemplary figures and shows how they survived, together with allegories and symbols popularized in the postclassical period, in religious and secular art into the eighteenth century. Professor Norths aim, as she says in her preface, is to provide a kind of Ariadnes thread to serve as a guide through the labyrinthine iconography of sophrosyne/ temperantia all the way from its beginnings in the coins and sarcophagi of late antiquity to its end in such specimens as the Reynolds window for the Ante Chapel of New College, Oxford, and Canovas tomb for Pope Clement XIV in Rome. Bringing together a wealth of material from many disciplines, Professor Norths book offers fresh perspectives on the ways in which the Greeks and Romans interpreted ethical ideals. Like her Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature (Cornell University Press. 1966), it is scrupulously documented and engagingly written. ISBN 9780801411359 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 782 Original cloth with Dustjacket. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good- dust jacket. A few tears to jacket edges. Spine is cocked. ; Study in Classical Philology; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages.

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