Images in Mind
Subtitle: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691094885
Subjects: History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Sculpture; History - Ancient & Classical; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient and Classical; Art and Architecture; Classics; History / Ancient / Greece; Ancient - Greece
First sentence: A MINIATURE love story frames the discovery that a certain Boutades, a Sikyonian potter at Corinth, once made: he manufactured the first portrait image on behalf of his daughter, "who was in love with a young man; and she, when he was going abroad, drew in outline on the wall the shadow of his face thrown by a lamp.