The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet : Images of Wine and Ritual /

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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 prod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lissarrague, F. (François) (Author)
Other Authors: Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vase-painting, Greek.
Manners and customs.
Dinners and dining in art.
Aesthetics, Ancient.
Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party)
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Pottery & Ceramics.
ART > Ceramics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Symposion.
Esthetique ancienne.
Peinture de vases grecque.
Greece.
Grece > Moeurs et coutumes > Ouvrages illustres.
Greece > Social life and customs > Pictorial works.
Pictorial works.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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