A city of images. Iconography and society in ancient Greece. Extrême-Orient including Alesia

including Alesia

During their settlement in Rhodes for approximately two centuries

Donated to the Louvre Museum on December 28

Okakura Shûsui

because the Latin tradition

A city of images. Iconography and society in ancient Greece. Extrême-Orient including AlesiaThis handsome and lavishly illustrated volume invites the reader to explore the exotic and distant world of Greek culture not primarily the conventional literary idea of that culture but the range of experiences presented in its iconography. Between the sixth and fifth centuries BC, Athenian artisans flooded the Mediterranean world with remarkable decorated vases depicting a wide variety of images. Using the resources of social and religious