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As Witnessed by Images: The Trojan War Tradition in Greek and Etruscan Art
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As Witnessed by Images: The Trojan War Tradition in Greek and Etruscan Art
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As Witnessed by Images: The Trojan War Tradition in Greek and Etruscan Art
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Steven Lowenstam offers here an alternative theoretical framework, arguing that Greek artists and poets interacted with each other freely, always aware of what the others were producing. As Trojan War myth was the common inheritance of all Greek storytellers, verbal and visual depictions of heroic myth were not created in isolation but were interdependent responses to a centuries-old tradition.
investigates visual depictions of Achillean and Odyssean myth from ca. 650-300 BCE and traces the many messages that the stories of Achilles and Odysseus inspired. Lowenstam identifies a variety of images and interpretations—some regarded Achilles as a hero, others believed him to be a cruel bully—that reflect and directly respond to the ancient heroic tradition from which the
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