Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 483 pages
• Published by: Princeton University Press March 20, 1995
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 069100160X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0691001609
• Book Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Product Review
No brief review can do justice to the originality and breadth of this major work of revisionist scholarship. . . . Gathering an imposing array of linguistic, literary, archaeological, and historical sources from around the Mediterranean, the author has demonstrated the profound, appreciative dependence of the Greeks on the Levantine 'East', beginning in the Late Bronze Age.

Book Description


In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.