The Ageing Body: Drunken Old Woman
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2018

I f tanag ras project an ideal of a mature woman, that woman is certainly not old. But this is not to say that old age is excluded from visual imagery in the Greek and Roman worlds; and Hellenistic art, in particular, develops a form of realism that includes studies of the ageing body. As with Tanagras themselves, such imagery finds expression less in the mythological world of gods and heroes than in genre subjects of everyday life: a trend that begins to be fully evident in Alexandria (in poetr