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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lissarrague, F. (François), author.

Contributor:

Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew, translator.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 1095

Standardized Title:

Flot d'images. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vase-painting, Greek.

Dinners and dining in art.

Aesthetics, Ancient.

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

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Translation of: Un flot d'images.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4008-6115-2

OCLC:

889253174