Description
This book will be widely read and used, and makes a genuine contribution to the field, in part at least because it puts together so much otherwise disparate material. The whole is written with great care at the level of the sentence; the style is pellucid, highly articulate, and careful, without either flashiness or plodding worthiness. As with The Tyrant's Writ, the topic is very fashionable, and the book's themes will be of interest to a large group of scholars. -- Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University This book offers many new insights and observations. The broad issue at hand is one of crucial significance to both philologists and art historians alike, and there is nothing like this treatment presently in print. It is indisputably a significant contribution to the field. No one could come away from reading it without having a deepened appreciation for the complexity of the construction of meaning in both ancient art and literature. -- Mark Fullerton, Ohio State University
About the Author
Deborah Tarn Steiner is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of "The Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindar", and "The Tyrant's Writ: Myths and Images of Writing in Ancient Greece" (Princeton).
Reviews
"[A] comprehensive, richly documented study... Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing... Informative and satisfying."--Choice "Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning... Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work."--Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology
Book Information
ISBN 9780691094885
Author Deborah Tarn Steiner
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 567g