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The Symposium and Its Past in Athenian Vase Painting, Ca. 530--450 B.C
Language: en
Pages: 806
Authors: Kathryn Rose Topper
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:

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The images analyzed in this project suggest that the modern understanding of the reclining symposium as an Orientalizing import was not shared by the ancient At
The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Kathryn Topper
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present.
Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Matthew A. Sears
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores the social, political, and cultural importance of Thrace to prominent Athenian individuals from the mid-sixth to the mid-fourth century BCE.
Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-painting
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Richard T. Neer
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher:

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In this study of Athenian vases of the late Archaic period, Neer tracks the design and imagery of the symposium, with its elaborate riddles and poems and the de
Pots & Plays
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Oliver Taplin
Categories: Greek drama (Tragedy)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-15 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Gre