Pots and Pans: A Colloquium on Precious Metals and Ceramics in the Muslim, Chinese, and Graeco-Roman Worlds, Oxford 1985 (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art)

The eminent archaeologist V. Gordon Childe, writing of the manufacture of vessels in one material intended to evoke the appearance of another, said that "skeuomorphism often gives us a glimpse into productive activities and artistic media of which no direct evidence survives." The Pots and Pans Colloquium at the Ashmolean Museum explored the phenomenon of "skeumorphism"; surviving ceramics were treated as a relfection of gold- and silver-working traditions of which few original specimens are now extant.

Vickers, Michael

Colloquium on Precious Metals and Ceramics in the Muslim, Chinese, and Graeco-Roman Worlds (1985 : Oxford, England)

Colloquium on Precious Metals And Cerami

Oxford University Press

Artful Crafts: Ancient Greek Silverware and Pottery

Exciting and provocative in its argument, this book challenges the widely held view that Greek pottery vases were objects of great value in antiquity, commissioned by rich patrons from the greatest artists of the day. Instead, they are shown to have been simply low cost versions of tableware originally made in silver and gold. This book demonstrates how Greek pottery first came to be regarded as a high value commodity in the eighteenth century thanks to clever, if not fraudulent, sales techniques; it examines the primary sources, both literary and epigraphic, to find what materials the ancients did consider to be important; and it explores the ways in which work in gold and silver influenced painted pottery.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gill, David

Antiques & Collectibles

This book challenges the widely held view that Greek pottery vases were objects of great value in antiquity, commissioned by rich patrons from the greatest artists of the day. Instead, they are shown to have been simply low cost versions of tableware originally made in silver and gold. Vickers and Gill demonstrates how Greek pottery first came to be regarded as a high value commodity in the eighteenth century thanks to clever, if not fraudulent, sales techniques. They explore the ways in which work in gold and silver influenced painted pottery, and examine the primary sources, both literary and epigraphic, to find what materials the ancients did consider to be important.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds. In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades. According to Vickers, the plays of Aristophanes—far from being nonpolitical—actually allow us to gauge the reaction of the Athenian public to the events that followed Pericles' death in 429 B.C., to the struggle for the political succession, and to the problems presented by Alcibiades' emergence as one of the most powerful figures in the state. This view of Aristophanes reaffirms the central role of allegory in his work and challenges all students of ancient Greece to rethink long-held assumptions about this important playwright.

Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays

Literature & Fiction

University of Texas Press

Sophocles and Alcibiades: Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day. 
Vickers shows that Sophocles was deeply involved in Athenian political life, which was often intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that Sophocles consciously or subconsciously projected onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing authors-Thucydides, Plato, and Euripides-whose work contains a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.

Cornell University Press

On the Ashmolean Museum's superb Greek household crockery are paintings showing how the people lived and worked the potter, armourer, woman weaving, the furniture carrier. For general readers. Ditributed by Woodstocker Books.

Greek Vases (Archaeology, History and Classical Studies.)

Asholean Museum

Ashmolean Museum

Becoming Preferred will teach you how to identify market stresses and create "Distinctive Value" using the five customer values. Individuals and organizations that employ these strategies enjoy increased market share, market prestige, higher margins and become leaders in their markets. This book is filled with applicable anecdotes, examples and strategies that will help you become the Preferred provider of what you sell.

Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition

Business & Money

Economics

Summit Learning Systems Inc

Excalibur: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur MacGregor (BAR International)

Wiegel, Hildegard

British Archaeological Reports

The 1950s were traumatic years for the British. A mighty Empire was in its death-throes. But for Africans these were years of immense exhilaration, of great expectations. Independence was within close reach. And in Nigeria, it was accepted that it should come quickly. But there was a problem. Nigeria s minorities, peoples comprising about 40 per cent of the country s population profoundly feared for their future under African leaders free of British imperial control. They demanded protection. This study reveals the remarkable story of how and why the British authorities betrayed the Nigerian people in relation to their treatment of this critical minorities issue, an issue of their own (British) making with the horrific consequences which were shortly to follow. Revelations about the British Authorities; about leading Nigerian figures including Chief Awolowo, Dr. Azikiwe, the Sardauna of Sokoto Sir Ahmadu Bello, Prime Minister Balewa and many others is all rivetting stuff. More ominously, the shadow of civil war in the making, and the crucial contribution of the British and the Minorities Commission, hover close. In the broader sense, A Nation Betrayed provides a severe reminder that just consideration of minorities' claims, indeed the claims of any challenger to a governing authority, is something not easily achieved. It shows too how a departing imperial authority may ensure retention of amicable and beneficial relations with the incoming independent authority, and indeed with its successors. Given the persistence of minorities' demands today on a world-wide scale, perhaps the principal message to be taken from this study is: to be forewarned is to be forearmed. To defer, evade, ignore, or deny minorities demands may only be at the cost of an ultimate and terrible reckoning.

A Nation Betrayed: Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957

History

Africa

Africa World Pr

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