This book presents a detailed study of the depiction of Zeus in one particular classical Athenian art-form, the red-figured vase. The author offers a close comparison of artistic and literary versions of the myths surrounding Zeus, including the Gigantomachy and the birth of other gods. He also discusses the artistic portrayal of Zeus in the light of contemporary religion and politics and examines vase-painting alongside other art-forms to distinguish the function of the different social contexts in which Zeus appears and to examine the role that the study of case-painting can play in the reconstruction of lost sculpture.
- ISBN10 0198149123
- ISBN13 9780198149125
- Publish Date 1 August 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 February 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 242
- Language English