Kathryn Topper

The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9781107011021
• ISBN-10: 1107011027
• Artikelnr.: 36337506

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Topper was educated at Bryn Mawr College and Harvard University. She is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Washington. She has held fellowships from the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, the American Journal of Archaeology and Hesperia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: vase painting and the symposium in Athens
1. Ancient visions of the sympotic past
2. Symposia of the primitive
3. Eros, service, and the oinochoos
4. The symposium and its foreign pasts
5. Female symposiasts and the limits of civilization
6. Symposia of the present?
Conclusion: vase painting and the construction of the sympotic past.