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The aesthetics of the Greek banquet : images of wine and by François Lissarrague, Andrew Szegdy-Maszak

By François Lissarrague, Andrew Szegdy-Maszak

In deepening our figuring out of the symposium in historic Greece, this publication embodies the wit and play of the pictures it explains: these adorning Athenian consuming vessels from the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets frequently depict the particular drinkers who commissioned their creation and produce the flowing jointly of wine, poetry, tune, video games, flirtation, and different parts that shaped the complicated constitution of the dinner party itself. an in depth studying of the items dealt with by way of drinkers within the pictures finds a number of metaphors, relatively that of wine as sea, all expressing quite a lot of attitudes towards an ambiguous substance that brings cheer yet can also reason harm.

Not in basic terms does this paintings provide an anthropological view of historical Greece, however it explores an actual iconographic approach. In so doing it is going to inspire and increase additional mirrored image at the position of the picture in a given culture.

Originally released in 1990.

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The lid can be decorated in a variety of ways, either in a circular pattern or as a tondo. Encircling a gorgoneion, for example, we find a group of athletes accompanied by a flute player in procession toward the one who is crowning the victor (fig. 26, trans. PeterLevi, Penguin ed. Empedocles ap. Aristotle Rap. 7( = fr. 100 DK, fr. 551 Bollack); see J. Bollack, Empedocle 3. Lesorigines, commentaire 2 (Paris, 1969), 474-478. 7 Baltimore, Robinson; CVA 3(7), pi. 3 (297)1, and text pp. 12-13. Cf. the redfigure cup, Florence, 91288; CVA 4(38) pi.

The depiction gives a clear sense of the quality of this meeting: a male gathering, where there is an assortment of pleasures—wine, music, sex—and where con­ versation is represented by the play of glances and gestures that con­ vey the exchanges between the guests and their partners. The spatial 7 See E. Knauer, "Ou gar en amis," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 2 (1985): 91—100, and the red-figure cup, Brussels, R259; Beazley, ARV 169/7. The Space of the Krater xo. Red-figure stamnos, Smikros, ca.

He is like someone parched by thirst and eager to quench it, without any intention of sharing with others as is customary at a symposion. The bottom of the krater has a hole that empties into the statue's base, which takes the form of a hollow circular crown; the drinker himself is hollow and also opens into the base, so that his body and the krater are connected; the same action fills both the vase and the stomach of the statuette (fig. 31). The seated figurine has small holes in his back and the top of his head to let air out as liquid rises within his body.

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