{"product_id":"myth-ethos-and-actuality-david-castriota-9780299133542","title":"Myth, Ethos, and Actuality: Official Art in Fifth Century B.C. Athens","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Castriota focuses on the strategy of ethical antithesis that asserted Greek moral superiority over the \"barbaric\" Persians, whose invasion had been repelled a generation earlier. He examines how, in major public programs of painting and sculpture, the leading artists of the period recast the Persians in the guise of wild and impious mythic antagonists to associate them with the ethical flaws or weaknesses commonly ascribed to women, animals, and foreigners. The Athenians, in contrast, were compared to mythic protagonists representing the excellence and triumph of Hellenic culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Castriota's study is innovative in emphasizing the ethical implication of mythic precedents, which required substantial alterations to render them more effective as archetypes for the defense of Greek culture against a foreign, morally inferior enemy. The book looks in new ways at how the patrons and planners sought to manipulate viewer response through the selective presentation or repackaging of mythic traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Castriota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299133540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299133542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.11h x 6.13w x 0.77d","brand":"David Castriota","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46334406918399,"sku":"9780299133542","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4d67471e-597a-4299-992e-d71c0567ae34.jpg?v=1731466752","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/myth-ethos-and-actuality-david-castriota-9780299133542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}