How Long to Read The Derveni Krater

How Long Does it Take to Read The Derveni Krater?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read The Derveni Krater by Beryl Barr-Sharrar

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This beautifully illustrated book represents the first full publication of the most elaborate metal vessel from the ancient world yet discovered. Found in an undisturbed Macedonian tomb of the late 4th century B.C., the volute krater is a tour de force of highly sophisticated methods of bronze working. An unusual program of iconography informs every area of the vessel. Snakes with copper and silver inlaid stripes frame the rising handles, wrapping their bodies around masks of underworld deities. On the shoulder sit four cast bronze figures: on one side a youthful Dionysos with an exhausted maenad, on the other a sleeping Silenos and a maenad handling a snake. In the major repousse frieze on the body a bearded hunter is associated with Dionysian figures. What was the function of this extraordinary object? And what is the meaning of the intricate iconography? The krater is placed in its Macedonian archaeological context as an heirloom of the descendants of the man named in the Thessalian inscription on its rim, and in its art-historical context as a highly elaborated, early-4th-century version of a metal type known in Athens by about 470 B.C.

How long is The Derveni Krater?

The Derveni Krater by Beryl Barr-Sharrar is 283 pages long, and a total of 71,599 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Derveni Krater Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read The Derveni Krater aloud.

What Reading Level is The Derveni Krater?

The Derveni Krater is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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