Greek vases images, contexts, and controversies : proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, 23-24 March 2002 (Brill, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-141) and index
Leagros The Satyr -- Skythian Hunters on the Attic Vases -- Images for a Warrior. On a Group of Athenian Vases and Their Public -- Images of a Warrior: On a Group of Athenian Vases and Their Public -- Bubbles = Baubles, Bangles and Beads: Added Clay in Athenian Vase Painting and its Significance -- Hera, Paestum, and the Cleveland Painter -- Odysseus and Kirke. Iconography in a Pre-Literate Culture -- The World of Aphrodite in the late Fifth Century B.C. -- The Paestan Painter Asteas
This volume deals with Greek painted vases, exploring them from various methodological points of view and moving beyond the traditional focus on connoisseurship and style. The volume, which represents the proceedings of an international conference sponsered by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, is an effort to exploit the immense richness of these vases by using them to study general cultural history