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The Gods on the East Frieze of the Parthenon
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cook, Brian F. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | J VERY CREATIVE MONUMENT, ancient or modern, grows forth from a rich, distinctive play of tradition and innovation. Not even the most revolutionary art can start wholly afresh. And conversely, even in a period as tradition bound as the Greek, it was a very rare artist indeed who merely copied. The greater the creative mind of the artist, of course, the more fascinating this play. The study that follows is concerned with tradition and innovation on the Parthenon frieze.1 Starting from a few passages or aspects of the frieze that draw on well-established iconographic traditions, it undertakes first to interpret a number of rather exceptional aspects of the frieze iconography. It goes on to try to uncover broad principles that underlie the design. And finally it attempts to employ these principles in defense of a view on the frieze that, if still the communis opinio, has yet come under increasing scholarly attack: that the celebrants of the Panathenaia are indeed mortal Athenians.2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/hesperia/147709.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
