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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Christie, James, 1773-1831. Disquisitions upon the painted Greek vases, and their probable connection with the shows of the Eleusinian and other mysteries. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825 (OCoLC)609175538 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Christie |
OCLC Number: | 9510960 |
Description: | x, 146 pages, XVI leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 29 cm |
Contents: | 1. Of the painted Greek pottery found in the tombs of Magna Græcia. Uses of these vessels as conjectured from a passage in Pindar ... -- 2. Origin of the vases considered from an examination of the paintings upon them ... -- 3. Devices of the Apulian vases derived from Sparta and Phœnicia. Imported from Magna Græcia to Rome ... -- 4. Exposure of the mysteries by Clemens Alexandrinus -- 5. Of the scenery of the Eleusinian mysteries. Paintings on the Greek vases copied from them. Eastern illuminations and the eleusinian shows compared -- 6. Of the lesser and the greater mysteries. Vase and the lantern comparatively considered as symbols. Various other symbols explained ... -- 7. Ceremonies peculiar to each day of the greater mysteries as enumerated by Meursius and an attempt to explain the exhibitions in the Propylæa ... -- 8. Harmonious arrangement of the universe -- 9. Attitudes of the deity variously personated on vases. Of shields and their devices -- 10. Temporary repose of nature. Of the Egyptian Horus in the torpid state. Mutes on the reverse of Venus. figures draped and naked -- 11. Of fish and the allegory of angling -- 12. Of old age, wine, music and rhetoric -- 13. Of the dotted chaplet, girdle, and scarf. Fate of Cassandra and the flight of Æneas mystically treated -- 14. Of solstitial fountains -- 15. Of the window and the ladder and the banqueting chamber of the blessed. Singular customs of the Oriental Buddhists explained -- 15. Extinction of heathen rites in Greece and Italy. Eleusinian mysteries inadequate to the end proposed in them. Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | by James Christie, a member of the Society of the Dilettanti. |
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