Full Description
New studies on the interaction of various media in ancient Greek art This collection includes twenty-one new essays by leading scholars in the field of Greek art and archaeology. Exploring a range of media including vase painting, sculpture, gems and coins, they each address questions that cross the boundaries of specialised fields. They outline the range of visual experiences at stake in the various media used in antiquity and shed light on the specificities of each medium. They show how meaning is produced, according to the nature of the medium: its use, context and enunciative structure. Also explored are the different methodologies used to produce meaning: how do images 'make', or create, sense to their ancient viewers and how can we now access those meanings? This richly illustrated volume offers new interpretations and arguments concerning fundamental questions in the field, which expand our knowledge and understanding of Greek art, patrons and viewers.
Contents
List of Illustrations v
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction 1
I. Making Meaning: How Do Images Work? 13
1. François Lissarrague
Ways of Making Sense: Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art 14
2. Annette Haug
Images and History in Eighth and Seventh Century B.C. Athens: A Discursive Analytical Approach 40
3. Martina Seifert
Knowledge and the Production of Meaning: Greek Vase-Imagery Reconsidered 63
4. Luca Giuliani
Images and Storytelling 82
II. Interpretation and Perception 103
5. Mauro Menichetti
The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory 104
6. Adrian Staehli
Parapictoriality 117
III. Reflections of the City and Its Craftsmen 137
7. Dyfri Williams
Les Images de la Cité - The Vase Painter's Gaze 138
8. Tonio Hölscher
Again: Working Scenes on Athenian Vases—Images between Social Values and Aesthetic Reality 203
IV. Constructions of Myth Through Images 226
9. Marion Meyer
Of Gods and Giants: Myth and Images in the Making 227
10. Véronique Dasen
The Fabric of Myth in Ancient Glyptic 252
11. François de Callataÿ
Greek Coin Iconography in Context: Eight Specificities that Differentiate Them from Other Visual Media 275
V. Clay and Stone: Material Matters 294
12. Andrew Stewart
Paragone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek Painting and Sculpture 295
13. H.A. Shapiro
Communicating with the Divine in Marble and Clay 328
14. Judith M. Barringer
The Message is in the Medium: White-Ground Lekythoi and Stone Grave Markers in Classical Athens 363
15. Arthur Muller
Greek Figurative Terracottas of the Archaic Period: Problematic Images? From Identification to Meaning and Function 378
16. Victoria Sabetai
Images in Dialogue: Picturing Identities in Boiotian Stone, Clay, and Metal 398
17. Stefan Schmidt
Images of Drinking and Laughing: Vessels and Votives in the Theban Kabirion 430
18. Ken Lapatin
Beyond Ceramics and Stone: The Iconography of the Precious 461
VI. Honoring the Dead 477
19. Nikolaus Dietrich
Archaic Grave Reliefs: Body or Stele? 478
20. Dimitri Paleothodoros
On Vases, Terracottas, and Bones: How to Read Funerary Assemblages from Sixth- and Fifth-Century Greece 508
21. Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell
Winged Figures and Mortals at a Crossroad 526
About the Contributors 547
Bibliography 551
Index 674
