The aesthetics of the Greek banquet : images of wine and ritual = (Un Flot d'Images) / François Lissarrague ; translated by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lissarrague, F. (François), author.

Contributor:

Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew, translator.

Standardized Title:

Flot d'images. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Vase-painting, Greek.

Dinners and dining in art.

Aesthetics, Ancient.

Manners and customs.

Greece--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Greece.

Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party).

Genre:

7 Electronic books.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations Used in Notes

1. The Greek Experience of Wine

2. The Space of the Krater

3. Manipulations

4. Drinking Games

5. Reflections

6. Wine and the Wine-Dark Sea

7. Song and Image

Epilogue. Drink to Me with Thine Eyes

Sources of Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

Translation of: Un flot d'images.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lissarrague, F. Aesthetics of the Greek banquet : images of wine and ritual = (Un Flot d'Images).

ISBN:

9781400861156

1400861152

OCLC:

889253174

Publisher Number:

10.2307/j.ctt7zvr43

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.