Athens at the Margins Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World / Nathan T. Arrington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arrington, Nathan T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HISTORY / Ancient / General.

Pottery, Greek--Greece--Athens.

Pottery, Greek.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 351 p.)

Place of Publication:

[2021] Princeton : Princeton University Press,

Summary:

How the interactions of nonelites influenced Athenian material culture and societyThe seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that goods and knowledge flowed from East to West through cosmopolitan elites. Rejecting this explanation, Athens at the Margins proposes a new narrative of the origins behind the style and its significance, investigating how material culture shaped the ways people and communities thought of themselves.Athens and the region of Attica belonged to an interconnected Mediterranean, in which people, goods, and ideas moved in unexpected directions. Network thinking provides a way to conceive of this mobility, which generated a style of pottery that was heterogeneous and dynamic. Although the elite had power, they were unable to agree on the norms of conspicuous consumption and status display. A range of social actors used objects, contributing to cultural change and to the socially mediated production of meaning. Historiography and the analysis of evidence from a wide range of contexts—cemeteries, sanctuaries, workshops, and symposia—offers the possibility to step outside the aesthetic frameworks imposed by classical Greek masterpieces and to expand the canon of Greek art.Highlighting the results of new excavations and looking at the interactions of people with material culture, Athens at the Margins provocatively shifts perspectives on Greek art and its relationship to the eastern Mediterranean.

Contents:

The Future of Phaleron

Table1: Protoattic Burials

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Chapter 6. Drinking and Worshipping Together: Participation and Subjectivity in the Symposium and the Sanctuary

Communities of Individuals

Between Attic Red-Figure and Levantine Bowls

Nestor's Cup

Defining the Symposium and Its Participants

The Spinning Cup

Myths and Communities of Viewers

Entering the Group through Writing

Drinking and the Orient

Cult and Subjectivity

The Formation of Subjectivity and Community through Ritual Practice

The Demands of Cult

The Vase in Hand

Chapter 7. Back to Phaleron

Recap

Beyond Attica and the Seventh Century

Vases in Motion: Participation and Interaction in Funeral Rituals

Social Disorder and the Absence of Cultural Hegemony

Appropriation and Transformation: A Model for Change from Below

Dissent and Resistance

The Many Hands at Work

Chapter 5. Artists and Their Styles: Production, Process, and Subjectivity

Beyond Connoisseurship

The Paradox of the Seventh-Century Artist Personality

The Contexts of Production

Experiments with Figure and Ornament

Technique and the Emergence of the Painter's Hand

"Personal" Styles

Color Plates

Chapter 3. The Place of Athens in the Mediterranean: Horizons and Networks

Which Way Is the Orient?

The Eastern Horizon

The Western Horizon

The Horizon of Antiquity

Western Connections: From Diffusion to Network Thinking

The "Oriental" West

Two Unexpected Trajectories: Odysseus and Colaeus

Feedback from the West

The Peripheries of a Global Mediterranean

Chapter 4. Interaction at the Grave: Style, Practice, and Status

More Than a Painting

The Landscape of Commemoration

Visibility and Variability in the Burial Record

Cover

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. The Margins

Greece and the Near East: The Need for a (Micro-)Regional Perspective

Style: Toward an Approach

Attica in the Seventh Century: Historical Context

In Defense of Protoattic

Synopsis

Chapter 2. From Phaleron Ware to Exotica: A Historiography of Protoattic

Why Look Back?

The First Finds and the Beginning of Orientalizing

A Canon Takes Shape

To Make Protoarchaic Art . . . Classical

The Turn to Consumption, and Its Consequences

Shifting the Orientalizing Paradigm

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691222660

0691222665

OCLC:

1265461005