The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet : Images of Wine and Ritual (Un flot d'images)

Lissarrague, Francois

ISBN 10: 0691035954 / ISBN 13: 9780691035956

Published by Princeton University Press (1990), Princeton, 1990

About this Item

24x15cm, vii,150 pp., Rubberstamp to rear flyleaf. Contentsd: The Greek Experience of Wine; The Space of the Krater; Manipulations; Drinking Games; Reflections; Wine & the Wine-dark Sea; Song & Image; Epilogue: Drink to Me with Thine Eyes. A large removed-label mark to rear fixed flyleaf. Good.

Seller Inventory # 013211

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet : Images of Wine and Ritual (Un flot d'images)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (1990), Princeton
• Publication Date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0691035954
• ISBN 13: 9780691035956
• Binding: orig. cloth
• Illustrator: Textual illustrations.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classical Antiquity

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Synopsis

In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm.

Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture.

Originally published in 1990.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French