Jonathan A Spivey

The Ancient Olympics

Enduring Creation: Art, Pain and Fortitude

Enduring Creation tells the story of one of the most pervasive, most revealing, most shunned, yet most voyeuristically appealing, relationships in over 2000 years of Western culture: the tender, complex rapport between art and pain. Why have artists of every age been so preoccupied with representing...

Panorama of the Classical World

The book is organized in a novel way, concentrating on themes that run through the whole period and unite Greek, Etruscan and Roman culture. Chapter I begins with the centrality of the body and its presentation. Chapter II turns to the religious framework and looks at gods and heroes. Chapter III sh...

The Micali Painter and His Followers (Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology)

The first full stylistic study of the Micali Painter, an ancient vase-painter, this book provides a catalogue of his surviving work (about 200 pieces) and an account of his development within, and influence on, archaic Etruscan painting. It clarifies the artist's unique contributions to the black-fi...

Etruscan Art (World of Art)

Recent discoveries and new scholarship bring the Etruscan world vividly to life. The Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the search for this myster...

Etruscan Art (World of Art) (Paperback) - Common

A critical survey which attempts to bring to life the enigmatic Etruscan people and their art. Archaeological evidence survives of this cultured and socially adept civilization with the emergence of richly frescoed tombs, exquisite jewelry and sculpture, metalwork and painted vases.

The Claudius Novels: I, Claudius [and] Claudius the God (Penguin Modern Classics)

Claudius the stammerer made it his business to watch from the sidelines and record the antics of the imperial households. Here, in this fictionalized biography, Claudius records the intrigue, lusts, perversions and bloodshed of the Imperial Roman households.

Greek Art

A survey of Greek art from c3000-c100BC, which sets the formation of the Classical style in its proper historical context. The examples featured include architecture, vase paintings, coins, gems, wall paintings, mosaics and metalwork.