Bronze monsters and the cultures of wonder : griffin cauldrons in the preclassical Mediterranean /

"Due to their proximity, the interactions between Greece and the Near East were regular throughout antiquity, but the period of the 8th/7th centuries BCE is generally called the "Orientalizing Age" (from the Greek perspective) because of the marked influence that the Near East had on...

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Main Author: Papalexandrou, Athanasios Christou, 1965- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Illustrations --  |t Preface --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Introduction --  |t Part I Griffin Cauldrons in Contexts of Life and Death --  |t Chapter One. The Eastern Mediterranean, Ionia, and the Aegean --  |t Chapter Two: Mainland Greece --  |t Chapter Three: Italy and France --  |t Chapter Four: Kolaios's Monster Cauldron at the Heraion of Samos --  |t Chapter Five. Monsters in Images Pictorial Representations of Griffin Cauldrons --  |t Part III Responses to the Uncanny --  |t Chapter Six: Vision of Wonders --  |t Conclusion --  |t Notes --  |t References --  |t Index 
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