10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GORGONEIA»
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The Medusa tale may have come first and inspired the development of gorgoneia
as a spin-off. Gorgoneia may have come first and inspired the development of the
Medusa tale as an explanatory back-formation. Or gorgoneia and the Medusa ...
Daniel Ogden, Professor of Ancient History Daniel Ogden, 2008
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The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases
On this example, however, these standard spirals have been replaced with highly
unusual flat discs that were covered with black gloss and then embellished with
painted gorgoneia. In the pot's unified schema of decoration, the same formula ...
3
I santuari urbani: Figure e tavole
Humphrey Payne has already noted that in vase painting, the Attic gorgoneia are
dependent on Corinthian models m. The bronze Attic gorgoneia, however, seem
to be eclectic in taste and reveal a mixture of Corinthian and Laconian ...
4
Naukratis I and II, Hawara, Biahmu, and Arsinoe
But the beautiful terra-cotta ornaments with which they were once decorated
have been found in great numbers : these were gorgoneia, of which about eighty-
five were found in almost perfect preservation, gryphons, and rosettes of various
...
William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Ernest A. Gardner, 2013
5
Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum: Volume 2, Cambridge: Great Britain
Cracked in half vertically (reglued in modern times); lower end rotted away;
otherwise in good condition with faint traces of red pigment surviving in isolated
recesses at edges of several of lotus blossoms and in mouth of one of Gorgoneia;
...
Judith Swaddling, Tom Rasmussen, 1993
6
Drakon: Dragon Myth and Serpent Cult in the Greek and Roman ...
Gorgoneia, the representations of the Gorgon's disembodied, full-frontal, viewer-
challenging face that flourished throughout ancient art (not least on shields,
acroteria, and antefixes) and had a wide range of apotropaic functions, often feel
...
7
The Eye of Greece: Studies in the Art of Athens
Several figures are adapted to represent Athena with an applique helmet crest
and/or moulded or painted Gorgoneia on their breasts (for the series of the
moulded Gorgoneia, see p. 104). See Winter 48, nos. 1-2; Sedgwick 48-50 (in
both ...
Donna C. Kurtz, Brian A. Sparkes, 1982
28 This feeling probably accounted for much of the popularity of the Gorgoneia.
People liked the fact that Medusa's face gave them the creeps in a harmless,
ghost-story kind of way. They could shiver under the Gorgon's deadly gaze yet ...
9
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage
Unlike the Wappenmünzen, the gorgoneia could potentially advertise their
origins to those outside of Attica, at least to those who were well enough
equipped to understand the symbolism, and so would circulate as internationally
known ...
TIME PERIOD (B.C.) * Gorgoneia on the tondi or Attic block figure kylixes --- □
Gorgoneia on Attic block figure voces other than kylixes, and gorgoneia uied 01
shield devices on Attic black figure vases Figure 65. Introduction of the Gorgon ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GORGONEIA»
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'Phantom Lady's' Sixtieth Anniversary
She oscillates between the dutiful stenographer (secretly in love with her boss), a vengeaful Gorgoneia and a 'hep kitten' floozie. Ella Raines ... «Blogcritics.org, Jun 14»
