Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth-Century Athens

by David Castriota

Myth, Ethos, and Actuality examines the depiction of mythic themes on Athenian public monuments in the period following the Persian Wars, during the second and third quarters of the 5th century BC. Using material remains, as well as the evidence of contemporary Greek history, rhetoric and poetry, David Castriota interprets the Athenian monuments as vehicles of an official ideology intended to celebrate and justify the present in terms of the past.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299133508
• ISBN13: 9780299133504
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"