The imagery of the Athenian symposium
By: Kathryn Topper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781107011021
Subjects: Art and society; Symposium (Classical Greek drinking party) in art; Vase-painting, Greek; ART / History / Ancient & Classical
Description: "This book offers a new interpretation of sympotic scenes in sixth- and fifth-century BC Athenian vase painting. Through these images, the book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present"--
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Harvard University, 2007) under title: Symposium and its past in Athenian vase painting, ca. 530--450 B.C.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: vase painting and the symposium in Athens; 1. Ancient visions of the sympotic past; 2. Symposia of the primitive; 3. Eros, service, and the oinochoos; 4. The symposium and its foreign pasts; 5. Female symposiasts and the limits of civilization; 6. Symposia of the present?; Conclusion: vase painting and the construction of the sympotic past.