Hellenic Art Theater. Stepanov A.V.

, neither in the myths, nor in the poems of Homer and Hesiod, the images of the gods, heroes and kings are not represented clearly. Therefore, artists are no less than the poets are responsible for what the ancient Greeks saw and we see the inhabitants of Olympus and the main actors of the Trojan War. Vasophorers and sculptors sought to portray them as people in whom the “powerful spirit” and “power of nature” were felt. Creating the appearance of the characters of myths and the epic, they acted like modern theater artists. To monitor how for centuries the appearance of the actors of the myths and epos, depending on the changing attitude to them, has changed - an exciting task. The book of Alexander Stepanov, a candidate of art history, professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and a researcher at the Faculty of Free Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University, author of the book “Essays on Poetics and Rhetoric of Architecture”, published in UFOs.