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The imagery of the Athenian symposium
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"This book offers a new interpretation of sympotic scenes in sixth- and fifth-century BC Athenian vase painting. Through these images, the book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and ho...
"This book offers a new interpretation of sympotic scenes in sixth- and fifth-century BC Athenian vase painting. Through these images, the book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present"--
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- Creator
- Kathryn Topper, University of Washington, Seattle
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781107011021, 1107011027
- OCLC
- ocn793421769
- Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Harvard University, 2007) under title: Symposium and its past in Athenian vase painting, ca. 530--450 B.C.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.
- Introduction: vase painting and the symposium in Athens -- 1. Ancient visions of the sympotic past -- 2. Symposia of the primitive -- 3. Eros, service, and the oinochoos -- 4. The symposium and its foreign pasts -- 5. Female symposiasts and the limits of civilization -- 6. Symposia of the present? -- Conclusion: vase painting and the construction of the sympotic past