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Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to see - or did they come to see the world differently? In this lavishly illustrated and engagingly written book, Robin Osborne argues that these remarkable changes are the best evidence for the shifting nature of classical Greek culture. Osborne examines the thoUSnds of surviving Athenian red-figure pots painted between 520 and 440 BC and describes the changing depictions of soldiers and athletes, drinking parties and religious occasions, sexual relations, and scenes of daily life. He shows that it was not changes in each activity that determined how the world was shown, but changes in values and aesthetics.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Transformation of Athens
• Author: Robin Osborne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780691177670
• ISBN: 9780691177670
• ID: 16229368
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 920 g
• Dimensions: 189 × 262 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. February 2018

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