Author: Polanski, Tomasz
Title: Ancient Greek Orientalist Painters: The Literary Evidence
Description: Krakow, Ksiegarnia Akademicka, 2002. orig. wrappers. 24x16cm, 283,(24) pp.. 24pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Orientalism in Greek Art & Literature; Mythology & Exoticism: The Semito-African Orient in the Mythological Landscape Painting: The Heroines of Ethiopia & Phoenicia: The Rape of Europe; The Rescue of Andromeda; The African Adventures of Heracles: Heracles & Antaeus; Heracles & the Pygmies; History & Romance: The Iranian Orient in the Great Easel Painting: On the Battlefields of Issos & Marathon: Persian Warriors in the Poecile Marathon Painting; The Alexander Mosaic & the Greek Battle Painting; Three Persian Princesses; The Death of Pantheia; The Warrior Princess Rhodogoune; The Wedding of Alexander & Roxana; Final Remarks

Keywords: Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece, Greek Painting, Art History, Orientalism, Orientalist, Painters, Iconography, Literary Criticism