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001 2012016092
003 DLC
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008 120419s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012016092
020 $a9781107011021 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-gr---
050 00 $aNK4645$b.T67 2012
082 00 $a738.3/8209385$223
084 $aART015060$2bisacsh
100 1 $aTopper, Kathryn,$d1978-
245 14 $aThe imagery of the Athenian symposium /$cKathryn Topper, University of Washington, Seattle.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $axii, 225 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This book offers a new interpretation of sympotic scenes in sixth- and fifth-century BC Athenian vase painting. Through these images, the book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aBased on the author's thesis (doctoral--Harvard University, 2007) under title: Symposium and its past in Athenian vase painting, ca. 530--450 B.C.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
650 0 $aVase-painting, Greek$zGreece$zAthens.
650 0 $aSymposium (Classical Greek drinking party) in art.
650 0 $aArt and society$zGreece$zAthens.
650 7 $aART / History / Ancient & Classical.$2bisacsh