Free-Standing Statues
Set up in the Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus at Athens
- Anno: 2025
- Autore/i: Antonio Corso
- Catalogo: Scienze e Lettere
- Argomento: Archeologia
- ISBN: 978-88-6687-308-2
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In this monograph all the known free-standing sculptures are collected,
which may have been set up in the Sanctuary and Theatre
of Dionysos Eleuthereus and in the surrounding areas
from the late Archaic to the early Hellenistic period.
The research on how statues in several choregic monuments
looked like is also investigated in this study.
The primary destinations of the original statues
of renowned sculptural types such as the Resting Satyr,
the Capitoline Aphrodite, the Artemis Versailles
and the type Woburn Abbey Dionysos
are analysed and it is suggested that they were originally set up
in Sanctuary and Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus
or in the surrounding areas.
Furthermore, this study reflects on the contribution
of the monuments in the Sanctuary of Dionysos
in this central part of Athens at the South Slope of the Akropolis,
and finally the study ends with an investigation
of the unfolding of the Athenian visual arts
throughout the centuries from the Archaic period unwards.
INDEX
Introduction
PART 1. DIONYSOS: STATUE TYPES
Chapter 1. Cult Statues of Dionysos
Chapter 2. Statue Types of Dionyos
PART 2. MONUMENTS CELEBRATING THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES
Chapter 3 Monuments of Theatrical Life
Chapter 4. Street of Tripods: Praxiteles
Chapter 5. The Statues of the Thrasyllos Monument
PART 3. INSIDE THE THEATRE OF DIONYSOS
ELEUTHEREUS
Chapter 6. Eros, Love and Aphrodite in the Theatre
of Dionysos Eleuthereus
Chapter 7. New Comedy and Statues of Personifications
in the Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus
Chapter 8. Queen Niobe of Thebes and Her Sad Fate
Chapter 9. Portraits of Legends
Chapter 10: The Athenian Centre of High Culture
Bibliography
L’AUTORE: Antonio Corso got his degrees at the University of Padua,
he was curator of the Museum of Archaeologic Sciences
and Art of this University,
then he was awarded several senior fellowships
(British Academy, Onassis, European Institutes of Advanced Study etc.),
he lectured at Cologne, Berlin, London, Aix en Provence,
Athens, Nicosia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Budapest),
he published 214 scientific works which include 17 books,
he is specialized in classical Greek sculpture, in particular Praxiteles,
history of ideas, literary testimonia on visual arts,
especially Vitruvius and Pliny, fortune of ancient art at Constantinople
and ancient visual culture on Cyprus.
F.to 17x24, pp. 192, Brossura filo refe, Ill. a colori