Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet
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A01=Francois Lissarrague
Aesthetics
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek comedy
Apollonian and Dionysian
Archaic Greece
Aristocracy
Aristophanes
Aroma of wine
Askos (pottery vessel)
Author_Francois Lissarrague
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B06=Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
Barbiton
Berlin Painter
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AFPC
Category=HPN
Category=JB
Category=WFN
Charmides (dialogue)
Charonne (Paris Metro)
Classical Athens
COP=United States
Corporatism
Courtesan
De Agri Cultura
Delicacy
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Democracy
Dionysia
Dionysiaca
Dionysus
Douris (vase painter)
Drinking
Drinking horn
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Eroticism
Euphronios
Euripides
Eurytion
Euthymides
Feste
Greek Homosexuality (book)
In vino veritas
Kalathos
Kantharos
Kerameikos
Komos
Kottabos
Krater
Kratos (mythology)
Language_English
Lekythos
Libation
Light industry
Maenad
Meal
Modern Greek
Odysseus
Oenochoe
Old Greek
Oven
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Pindar
Poetry
Pottery
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Psykter
Religieuse
Rhyton
Satyr
Scythians
Silenus
Skyphos
Social order
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Tavern
The Bacchae
Vase
Visual culture
Visual pun
Wine bar
Wine press
Product details
- ISBN 9780691604053
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
