The imagery of the Athenian symposium / Kathryn Topper, University of Washington, Seattle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Topper, Kathryn, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vase-painting, Greek--Greece--Athens.

Vase-painting, Greek.

Art and society.

Greece--Athens.

Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) in art.

Art and society--Greece--Athens.

Physical Description:

xii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1107011027

9781107011021

OCLC:

793421769

Publisher Number:

99956993353