Homer history drawing notes

“It is said that every Classical scholar wishes to write a book about Homer — and that every other Classical scholar wishes to stop him or her writing it.” This apology introduces a book devoted more directly to early Greek figural art, as the author admits in the next sentence; few would have wished to stop him from doing so.

For the book caps a series of studies over the past twenty years, from several essays on Geometric figural scenes,¹ expanded into archaic narrative in the Myres lecture,² that have no doubt sown anticipation for this small monograph.

Its avowed purpose is baldly stated in the first sentence, and promises an unpopular message (p.

Homer history drawing notes pdf

ix). S. demonstrates, through a close analysis of well-known narrative scenes of the eighth, seventh and sixth centuries B.C., that early Greek artists did not follow closely the texts of our Iliad and Odyssey, as is commonly assumed.

(If this sounds familiar, it should, because scholars like Friis Johansen and Fi