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Not the classical ideal : Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art / edited by Beth Cohen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.Description: xvi, 559 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9004116184
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.385
Contents:
Introduction/ Beth Cohen -- Part I. Visual Constructions: The other versus the classical ideal -- An other view: an essay in political history/ Robin Osborne -- The stable hands of Dionysos: satyrs and donkeys as symbols of social marginalization in Attic vase painting/ J. Michael Padgett -- Behaving like an other: telltale gestures in Athenian vase painting/ Timothy J. McNiven -- Man-killers and their victims: inversions of the heroic ideal in classical art/ Beth Cohen -- Aesop, between man and beast: ancient portraits and illustrations/ Francois Lissarrague -- Part II. Internal others: reflections of Greek society -- Wearing an other hat: workmen in town and country/ Maria Pipili -- The good, the base, and the ugly: the drunken orgy in Attic vase painting and the Athenian self/ Robert F. Sutton, Jr. -- Others within the other: an intimate look at hetairai and maenads/ Jenifer Neils -- Some 'other' members of the Athenian houshold: Maids and their mistresses in fifth-century Athenian art/ John H. Oakley -- Confronting the other: childbirth, aging, and death on an Attic tombstone at Harvard/ Andrew Stewart and Celina Gray -- The comic body in Greek art and drama/ Helene P. Foley -- Part III. External Others: the portrayal of foreigners -- Modest athletes and liberated women: Etruscans on Attic black-figures vases/ H.A. Shapiro -- The nearly other: the Attic vision of Phrygians and Lydians/ Keth DeVries -- The allure and repulsion of Thracians in the art of classical Athens/ Despoina Tsiafakis -- The image of the other and the foreign hero/ Claude Berard -- The myth of Bousiris: ethnicity and art/ Margaret C. Miller -- Justice, kingship, and imperialism: Rhetoric and reality in fifth-century B.C. Representations following the Persian wars/ David Castriota.
List(s) this item appears in: Anne Stewart's Collection
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [487]-521) and index.

Introduction/ Beth Cohen -- Part I. Visual Constructions: The other versus the classical ideal -- An other view: an essay in political history/ Robin Osborne -- The stable hands of Dionysos: satyrs and donkeys as symbols of social marginalization in Attic vase painting/ J. Michael Padgett -- Behaving like an other: telltale gestures in Athenian vase painting/ Timothy J. McNiven -- Man-killers and their victims: inversions of the heroic ideal in classical art/ Beth Cohen -- Aesop, between man and beast: ancient portraits and illustrations/ Francois Lissarrague -- Part II. Internal others: reflections of Greek society -- Wearing an other hat: workmen in town and country/ Maria Pipili -- The good, the base, and the ugly: the drunken orgy in Attic vase painting and the Athenian self/ Robert F. Sutton, Jr. -- Others within the other: an intimate look at hetairai and maenads/ Jenifer Neils -- Some 'other' members of the Athenian houshold: Maids and their mistresses in fifth-century Athenian art/ John H. Oakley -- Confronting the other: childbirth, aging, and death on an Attic tombstone at Harvard/ Andrew Stewart and Celina Gray -- The comic body in Greek art and drama/ Helene P. Foley -- Part III. External Others: the portrayal of foreigners -- Modest athletes and liberated women: Etruscans on Attic black-figures vases/ H.A. Shapiro -- The nearly other: the Attic vision of Phrygians and Lydians/ Keth DeVries -- The allure and repulsion of Thracians in the art of classical Athens/ Despoina Tsiafakis -- The image of the other and the foreign hero/ Claude Berard -- The myth of Bousiris: ethnicity and art/ Margaret C. Miller -- Justice, kingship, and imperialism: Rhetoric and reality in fifth-century B.C. Representations following the Persian wars/ David Castriota.

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