Two explanations are proposed for the fact that classical scenes depicting a combat between a Greek
warrior and an opponent are composed in a restrained way, in that the actual violence of maiming and
killing is not explicitly represented. The first explanation is speculative as a visual parallel with the
treatment of violence in classical tragedy, while the second is based on a formal, art historical explanation
of a motif derived from Egyptian art. In a concluding section it is pointed out that in Hellenistic
art violence becomes explicit in the depictions of war and combat.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1000804 |
| Date | 04 April 2008 |
| Creators | Mare, EM |
| Publisher | South African Journal of Art History |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Rights | South African Journal of Art History |
| Relation | South African Journal of Art History |
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