Approaching the Ancient Artifact: Representation, Narrative, and Function

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Approaching the Ancient Artifact

Representation, Narrative, and Function

Edited by: Amalia Avramidou and Denise Demetriou

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110308815

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About this book

This volume consists consists of forty contributions written by an internationally renowned selection of scholars. The authors adopt an interdisciplinary methodology, examining both literary and archaeological sources, and a comparative perspective that transgresses national, chronological, and cultural boundaries, in order to investigate the nature of the links between text and image. This multifaceted approach to the study of ancient artifacts enables the authors to treat art and artistic production as activities that do not merely mirror social or cultural relationships but rather, and more significantly, as activities that create social and cultural relationships. The essays in this book are motivated by their authors' belief that there is no simple direct link between art and myths, art and text, or art and ritual, and that art should not be delegated to the role of a by-product of a literate culture. Instead, the contextual and symbolic analyses of artifacts and representations offered in this volume elucidate how art actively shaped myth, how it changed texts, how it transformed ritual, and how it altered the course of local, regional, and Mediterranean histories.

Author / Editor information

Amalia Avramidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece; Denise Demetriou, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA.

Reviews

"A Festschrift is a special type of publication. A good one not only commemorates an honoree’s career in a way that draws his/her colleagues into a circle of scholarship and brings joy to the honoree, but also provides a compendium of the state of the discipline and points the way toward future work. Approaching the Ancient Artifact does all of these things and is a worthy celebration of a more-than-worthy scholar."
Sheramy D. Bundrick in: BMCR 2015.03.12

" [...] the volume offers new perspectives and interesting variations on some extraordinarily familiar subjects related to ancient myth, cult, and daily life [...] is an outstanding resource and highly recommended for classicists and ancient art historians."
Renee M. Gondek in: Religious Studies Review 43/4 (2017), 395

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
H. Alan Shapiro: Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
Myth into Art
Helen Re-Claimed, Troy Re-Visited: Scenes of Troy in Archaic Greek Art Sarah P. Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Polyxena’s Dropped Hydria: The Epic Cycle and the Iconography of Gravity in Athenian Vase Painting Beth Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Myth into Art: A Black-figure Column Krater from Castle Ashby at the University of Virginia Tyler Jo Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Serpent in the Garden: Herakles, Ladon, and the Hydra J. Michael Padgett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Reflections on Triton Heide Mommsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Herakles and Geras in Etruria Erika Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Theseus and Aithra! A Forgotten Fragment and an Old Problem Ralf von den Hoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Theseus and Periphetes by the Sabouroff Painter? Mario Iozzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Dressing to Hunt. Some Remarks on the Calyx Krater from the So-called House of C. Julius Polybius in Pompei Marcello Barbanera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Phrixos’ Self-sacrifice and his “Euphemia” Michalis Tiverios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Philoktetes in Brauron (Attica) and Volterra (Etruria) Stephan Steingräber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
The Tombs of Amazons Susan Rotroff and Robert Lamberton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Iconography of Mourning
The Wretchedness of Old Kings Susan B. Matheson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Athenian State Monuments for the War Dead: Evidence from a Loutrophoros Judith M. Barringer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Women as Gift Givers and Gift Producers in Ancient Athenian Funerary Ritual Wendy E. Closterman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Volgei nescia: On the Paradox of Praising Women’s Invisibility Matthew Roller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Reduced Myths: Roman Ash Chests with Mythological Scenes Dietrich Boschung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Roman Sarcophagi in the Toledo Museum of Art John H. Oakley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Art and Cult
Bathing in the Sanctuaries of Asklepios and Apollo Maleatas at Epidauros Monika Trümper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
The Three Graces at the Panathenaia Olga Palagia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Hermes and the Athenian Acropolis: Hermes Enagonios (?) on a Red-figure Miniature Amphora of Panathenaic Shape by the Bulas Group Lina Kokkinou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Ἀναθήματα on the Athenian Acropolis and in the Sanctuary of the Nymph (600–560 BCE): The Case of the Skyphoi Nassi Malagardis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
The Artificial Sculptural Image of Dionysos in Athenian Vase Painting and the Mythological Discourse of Early Greek Life Guy Hedreen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Satyrs as Women and Maenads as Men: Transvestites and Transgression in Dionysian Worship Allison Surtees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Courtship Scenes
“To Dream the Impossible Dream” Dyfri Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Hare and the Dog: Eros Tamed Jenifer Neils Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
A Type γ Courting Scene for Alan: The Spitzer Amphora at Bryn Mawr College Robert F. Sutton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
A Lazy Afternoon Adrienne Lezzi-Hafter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Narrative Strategies
A Matter of Style/Why Style Matters: A Birth of Athena Revisited J. Robert Guy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Story and Status: The François Vase and the Krater from Vix Jasper Gaunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
A Frame for Names: The Case of the Hydria Louvre F 28 Bettina Kreuzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Composition and Narrative on Skyphoi of the Penelope Painter Mark D. Stansbury-O’Donnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Where Should We Place the Krater? An Optimistic Reconstruction of the Vessel’s Visibility during the Symposion Martin Langner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Manipulating Mastoi: The Female Breast in the Sympotic Setting Helene A. Coccagna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Laconian Wine Christoph Reusser and Martin Bürge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Arion the Methymnian and Dionysos Methymnaios: Myth and Cult in Herodotus’ Histories Deborah Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
The Mozia Charioteer: A Revision Clemente Marconi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
An Ancient Plaster Cast in New York: A Ptolemaic Syncretistic Goddess Carlos A. Picón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
The Non-Human Paradox: Being Political in Aristotle’s Zoology Claudia Zatta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
Are We Rome? Ch. Brian Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539
Color Plates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars of classical art and archaeology.
Pages
- Front matter: 25
- Main content: 590
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 150
- Coloured Illustrations: 53
Keywords: Classical art; gender; iconography; Greek religion

eBook

Published: August 25, 2014
ISBN: 9783110308815

Hardcover

Published: July 14, 2014
ISBN: 9783110308730