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Attic White Ground Lekythos
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Author_Sian Lewis
Brygos Painter
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Departure Scenes
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Etruscan Tomb Painting
Female Life
Fountain Scenes
Free Women
Grave Stelai
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Male Female Interaction
Meidias Painter
Museo Nazionale Archeologico
Orchard Scenes
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Pan Painter
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Photo Courtesy
Pursuit Scenes
Pyxis Lid
red-figure
Seated Woman
Squat Lekythoi
Staatliche Museen
Tyrrhenian Amphorae
Vice Versa
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White Ground Lekythoi
Women's Pots
Women’s Pots
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415232357
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 16 May 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Here Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting.
Ceramics are an unparalleled resource for women's lives in ancient Greece, since they show a huge number of female types and activities. Yet it can be difficult to interpret the meanings of these images, especially when they seem to conflict with literary sources.
This much-needed study shows that it is vital to see the vases as archaeology as well as art, since context is the key to understanding which images can stand as evidence for the real lives of women, and which should be reassessed.
