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University of Texas Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0292701802 . DJ is protected in plastic sleeve. ; Some of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian koraisculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth and early fifth centuries B. C. , they served as votives until Persians sacked the citadel in 480/79 B. C. Subsequently, they were buried as a group and forgotten for nearly twenty-four centuries, until archaeologists excavated them in the 1880s. Today, they are among the treasures of the Acropolis Museum. Mary Stieber takes a fresh look at the Attic korai in this book. Challenging the longstanding view that the sculptures are generic female images, she persuasively argues that they are instead highly individualized, mimetically realistic representations of Archaic young women, perhaps even portraits of real people. Marshalling a wide array of visual and literary…
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The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Mary Stieber
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- Title The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai
- Author Mary Stieber
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 230
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Texas Press
- Date February 1, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780292701809 / 0292701802
- Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 5.98 x 0.95 in (23.27 x 15.19 x 2.41 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Inscriptions, Greek, Korai
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003011966
- Dewey Decimal Code 733.3
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