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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.
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.
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.
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.
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