NEW VIEW Sparkes, Brian A.
The Classical Review,
04/2000, Volume:
50, Issue:
1
Journal Article, Book Review
Peer reviewed
R. Osborne's 'Archaic and Classical Greek Art' covers roughly 500 years (800-300 BC), and sets out to place the history of Greek art firmly in the context of the society that produced it. It is a ...lively treatment that raises new questions and takes fresh approaches, but starts some hares that may not run. (Quotes from original text)
SMALL WORLD Sparkes, Brian
Word And Image In Ancient Greece,
11/2000
Book Chapter
THERE WAS A TIME when scenes painted on Greek pottery were understood to be closely linked to the varied literary sources that preceded or were contemporary with them, and the presumed connections ...between the two were investigated assiduously. The vase-painters were generally considered to be subsidiary to, and dependent on, the writers of the literary works. But the relationships between stories told through the medium of words and those presented in visual images are now seen to be more complex and to need more sophisticated treatment (see March below, pp. 119-39). Although the images are still useful in helping us
