Figures of Speech
Subtitle: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780226244365
Subjects: Ceramics; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world; Applied Arts (General); Classic Art; Fiction; Fiction - General; History: World; Literature: Classics; Ancient Greece; Classics; Pottery & Ceramics; Fiction / Classics; History - General; Male nude in art; Man-woman relationships in art; Themes, motives; Vases, Greek; Women in art
First sentence: One only has to turn to the subject index of John Boardman's Athenian Black Figure Vases and to his Athenian Red Figure Vases to gain a sense of how rich is the treasury of images these objects offer.
Description: "Over the past two hundred years, thousands of ancient Greek vases have been unearthed. Yet these artifacts remain a challenge: what did the images depicted on these vases actually mean to ancient Greek viewers? In this long-awaited book, Gloria Ferrari uses Athenian vases literary evidence, and other works of art from the Archaic and Classical periods (520-400 B.C.) to investigate what these items can tell us about the ancient Greeks - specifically, their notions of gender."--BOOK JACKET.