Visualizing Creation in Ancient Greece

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" Visualizing Creation in Ancient Greece "
Emma Stafford

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081400
Doc. No	:	LA125029
Call No	:	‭10.1163/107992609X12524941449886‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Emma Stafford
Title & Author	:	Visualizing Creation in Ancient Greece [Article]\ Emma Stafford
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2009
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/4
Page No	:	419–447
Abstract	:	There is very little direct representation of acts of creation in Greek art. This paper examines the visual potential of the extended creation narrative first related by Hesiod, focusing on the handful of episodes which are to be found in the visual arts—the births of Aphrodite and Athene, Zeus's slaying of Typhon and the Gigantomachy—while attempting to account for their selection. It also considers the remarkable lack of an authoritative account of the creation of mankind in the archaic and classical periods, and the relatively late development of Prometheus's role as man's creator, which contrasts with the much earlier establishment of traditions concerning local “first men” and the creation of the first woman, Pandora. There is very little direct representation of acts of creation in Greek art. This paper examines the visual potential of the extended creation narrative first related by Hesiod, focusing on the handful of episodes which are to be found in the visual arts—the births of Aphrodite and Athene, Zeus's slaying of Typhon and the Gigantomachy—while attempting to account for their selection. It also considers the remarkable lack of an authoritative account of the creation of mankind in the archaic and classical periods, and the relatively late development of Prometheus's role as man's creator, which contrasts with the much earlier establishment of traditions concerning local “first men” and the creation of the first woman, Pandora.
Descriptor	:	BIRTH OF APHRODITE
Descriptor	:	BIRTH OF ATHENE
Descriptor	:	CREATION
Descriptor	:	ERICHTHONIOS
Descriptor	:	GIGANTOMACHY
Descriptor	:	GREEK MYTH
Descriptor	:	HESIOD
Descriptor	:	PANDORA
Descriptor	:	PROMETHEUS
Descriptor	:	TYPHON
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/107992609X12524941449886‬