Drawing on paintings on vases, with supporting evidence from literature, reconstructs the entire wedding ceremony in ancient Athens, from the preparations to the rituals on the day after the wedding night. Also traces the evolution of the paintings from formal scenes of the procession to intimate portrays of the bride's preparations, which show women to be in possession of their own rituals and seduction methods. Includes 130 high quality black-and-white plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Wedding in Ancient Athens (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Oakley, John H.

Sinos, Rebecca H.

Weddings

Univ of Wisconsin Pr

This enjoyable and innovative book reconstructs the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B.C.

Wedding in Ancient Athens (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of Wisconsin Press

A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has been written on scenes of daily life, and what has been written has been tucked away in hard-to-find books and journals. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases synthesizes this material and expands it: it is the first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals. John H. Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations. This guide is an essential and much-needed reference for scholars and an ideal sourcebook for classics and art history.

Oakley, John

What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book-the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece. Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence. This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

Neils, Jenifer

Yale University Press

What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book―the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece.Coming of Age in Ancient Greece showsthat the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child’s existence.This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood’s effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

The Attic white lekythoi, funerary vases long appreciated for their beautiful polychrome images, evoke the style of lost classical wall and mural paintings. This richly illustrated volume closely examines the four major types of scenes: domestic pictures; the mythological conductors of the soul; the prothesis (wake); and visits to the grave. John Oakley analyzes these pictures in context, documenting relationships between the "rites of passage," Athenian history, and the changing perceptions of death in fifth-century Athens.

Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography)

Cambridge University Press

This richly illustrated volume offers a fascinating introduction to ancient Greek vases for the general reader. It presents vases not merely as beautiful vessels to hold water and wine, but also as instruments of storytelling and bearers of meaning. The first two chapters analyze the development of different shapes of pottery and relate those shapes to function, the evolution in vase production techniques and decoration, and the roles of potters, painters, and their workshops. Subsequent chapters focus on vases as the primary source of imagery from ancient Greece, offering unique information about mythology, religion, theater, and daily life. The author discusses how to identify the figures and scenes depicted in vase paintings, what these narratives would have meant to the people who lived with them and used them, and how they therefore reflect the cultural values of their time. Also examined is the impact Greek vases had on the art, architecture, and literature of subsequent generations. Based on the rich collections of the British Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exquisite details of the works offer the reader the opportunity for an intimate interaction with the graphic beauty and narrative power of ancient vases often not available in a gallery setting.

The Greek Vase: Art of the Storyteller

J.paul Getty Museum

This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also the dynamic appearance of a younger generation of scholars dealing with the subject. Subject areas range from the study of the potters and painters themselves, to shape, subject matter, chronology, export, excavation pottery, context, and the influence of Athenian vases on pottery from other regions of the Mediterranean and vice versa. Three papers in Greek.\nTable of Contents\nDionysos in Context: Two Attic Red-figure Kraters of the Early Fourth Century BC (Amalia Avramidou) 
Attic Red-figure Pottery from Olympia (Martin Bentz) 
Spruce, Pine, or Fir – Which did Sinis Prefer? (Elke and Hans-Joachim Böhr) 
Inside/Outside: Revisiting a Chous in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sheramy D. Bundrick) 
Herakles, Athena und Chthonia Gorgo: Mythos und Kunst in den Töpferwerkstätten des Kerameikos in Athen (Stamatis Fritzilas) 
Seeing the Image: Constructing a Data-base of the Imagery on Attic Pottery from 635 to 300 BC (Filippo and Innocenza Giudice ) 
The Jena Workshop Reconsidered: Some New Thoughts on Old Finds (Kleopatra Kathariou) 
The Iconography of Madness in Attic Vase-Painting (Eurydice Kefalidou) 
Women and Deer: from Athens to Corinth and Back (Sonia Klinger) 
The Sky as hippodromes – Agonistic Motives within Astral Representations (Bettina Kratzmueller) 
An Aristocrat in the Athenian Kerameikos: The Kleophrades Painter = Megakles (Bettina Kreuzer) 
Sourcing Stories: the Embassy to Achilles on Attic Pottery (Elizabeth Langridge-Noti) 
Iconographical Divergencies in Late Athenian Black-Figure: The Judgement of Paris (Anna A. Lemos) 
Wheel without Chariot – A Motif in Attic Vase-Painting (Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter) 
Erotic Images on Attic Vases: Markets and Meanings (Kathleen M. Lynch) 
Nikosthenic Pyxides between Etruria and Greece (Claire L. Lyons) 
Coupes attiques à figures rouges trouvées à Thasos (Jean-Jacques Maffre) 
Old Age in Athenian Vase-Painting (Susan B. Matheson) 
Prometheus oder Atlas? Zur Deutung der Amphora München 1540 (Heide Mommsen) 
The ‘Unheroic’ Corpse: Re-reading the Sarpedon Krater (Jenifer Neils) 
Attic Imports at Marion: Preliminary Results of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus (J. Michael Padgett) 
The Relocation of Potters and the Dissemination of Style: Athens, Corinth, Ambrakia, and the Agrinion Group (John K. Papadopoulos) 
White-ground Lekythoi in Athenian Private Collections: Some Iconographic Observations (Maria Pipili) 
Early Red-figure in Context (Susan I. Rotroff) 
Topographies of Cult and Athenian Civic Identity on Two Masterpieces of Attic Red-Figure (H.A. Shapiro) 
The Invention of the Female Nude: Zeuxis, Vase-Painting, and the Kneeling Bather (Robert F. Sutton) 
The Meidias Painter and the Jena Painter Revisited (Olga V. Tugusheva) 
Mortals Facing the Goddess: Thoughts on the Panathenaic Amphora of Lydos in Florence and some Pseudo-Panathenaic Vases (Panos Valavanis) 
Picturing Potters and Painters (Dyfri Williams) 
The three papers in Greek are not currently listed here.

Athenian Potters and Painters: Volume II

Palagia, Olga

Oxbow Books

This volume presents the proceedings of the second Athenian Potters and Painters conference, which was held at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2007. Together with the 1994 conference (Volume I, Oxbow 1997), these are the first of their kind - focusing purely on Athenian pottery and addressing key aspects of its study. The thirty-two papers contained here are the result not only of a large amount of new material but also the dynamic appearance of a younger generation of scholars dealing with the subject. Subject areas range from the study of the potters and painters themselves, to shape, subject matter, chronology, export, excavation pottery, context, and the influence of Athenian vases on pottery from other regions of the Mediterranean and vice versa. Three papers in Greek. Table of Contents Dionysos in Context: Two Attic Red-figure Kraters of the Early Fourth Century BC (Amalia Avramidou) Attic Red-figure Pottery from Olympia (Martin Bentz) Spruce, Pine, or Fir – Which did Sinis Prefer? (Elke and Hans-Joachim Böhr) Inside/Outside: Revisiting a Chous in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Sheramy D. Bundrick) Herakles, Athena und Chthonia Gorgo: Mythos und Kunst in den Töpferwerkstätten des Kerameikos in Athen (Stamatis Fritzilas) Seeing the Image: Constructing a Data-base of the Imagery on Attic Pottery from 635 to 300 BC (Filippo and Innocenza Giudice ) The Jena Workshop Reconsidered: Some New Thoughts on Old Finds (Kleopatra Kathariou) The Iconography of Madness in Attic Vase-Painting (Eurydice Kefalidou) Women and Deer: from Athens to Corinth and Back (Sonia Klinger) The Sky as hippodromes – Agonistic Motives within Astral Representations (Bettina Kratzmueller) An Aristocrat in the Athenian Kerameikos: The Kleophrades Painter = Megakles (Bettina Kreuzer) Sourcing Stories: the Embassy to Achilles on Attic Pottery (Elizabeth Langridge-Noti) Iconographical Divergencies in Late Athenian Black-Figure: The Judgement of Paris (Anna A. Lemos) Wheel without Chariot – A Motif in Attic Vase-Painting (Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter) Erotic Images on Attic Vases: Markets and Meanings (Kathleen M. Lynch) Nikosthenic Pyxides between Etruria and Greece (Claire L. Lyons) Coupes attiques à figures rouges trouvées à Thasos (Jean-Jacques Maffre) Old Age in Athenian Vase-Painting (Susan B. Matheson) Prometheus oder Atlas? Zur Deutung der Amphora München 1540 (Heide Mommsen) The ‘Unheroic’ Corpse: Re-reading the Sarpedon Krater (Jenifer Neils) Attic Imports at Marion: Preliminary Results of the Princeton University Archaeological Expedition to Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus (J. Michael Padgett) The Relocation of Potters and the Dissemination of Style: Athens, Corinth, Ambrakia, and the Agrinion Group (John K. Papadopoulos) White-ground Lekythoi in Athenian Private Collections: Some Iconographic Observations (Maria Pipili) Early Red-figure in Context (Susan I. Rotroff) Topographies of Cult and Athenian Civic Identity on Two Masterpieces of Attic Red-Figure (H.A. Shapiro) The Invention of the Female Nude: Zeuxis, Vase-Painting, and the Kneeling Bather (Robert F. Sutton) The Meidias Painter and the Jena Painter Revisited (Olga V. Tugusheva) Mortals Facing the Goddess: Thoughts on the Panathenaic Amphora of Lydos in Florence and some Pseudo-Panathenaic Vases (Panos Valavanis) Picturing Potters and Painters (Dyfri Williams) The three papers in Greek are not currently listed here.

Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II

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The Wedding in Ancient Athens (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Wedding in Ancient Athens (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past

Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography)

The Greek Vase: Art of the Storyteller

Athenian Potters and Painters: Volume II

Athenian Potters and Painters Volume II