Title Not the classical ideal : Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art / edited by Beth Cohen
Publication Info Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  579.02 N84    REQUESTABLE
 Onassis Library  N5630 .N68 2000    DEPARTMENT USE ONLY
Description xvi, 559 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction / Beth Cohen -- 1. An Other View: An Essay in Political History / Robin Osborne -- 2. The Stable Hands of Dionysos: Satyrs and Donkeys as Symbols of Social Marginalization in Attic Vase Painting / J. Michael Padgett -- 3. Behaving Like an Other: Telltale Gestures in Athenian Vase Painting / Timothy J. McNiven -- 4. Man-killers and their Victims: Inversions of the Heroic Ideal in Classical Art / Beth Cohen -- 5. Aesop, Between Man and Beast: Ancient Portraits and Illustrations / Francois Lissarrague -- 6. Wearing an Other Hat: Workmen in Town and Country / Maria Pipili -- 7. The Good, the Base, and the Ugly: The Drunken Orgy in Attic Vase Painting and the Athenian Self / Robert F. Sutton, Jr. -- 8. Others Within the Other: An Intimate Look at Hetairai and Maenads / Jenifer Neils -- 9. Some 'Other' Members of the Athenian Household: Maids and Their Mistresses in Fifth-century Athenian Art / John H. Oakley -- 10. Confronting the Other: Childbirth, Aging, and Death on an Attic Tombstone at Harvard / Andrew Stewart and Celina Gray -- 11. The Comic Body in Greek Art and Drama / Helene P. Foley -- 12. Modest Athletes and Liberated Women: Etruscans on Attic Black-figure Vases / H. A. Shapiro -- 13. The Nearly Other: The Attic Vision of Phrygians and Lydians / Keith DeVries -- 14. The Allure and Repulsion of Thracians in the Art of Classical Athens / Despoina Tsiafakis -- 15. The Image of the Other and the Foreign Hero / Claude Berard -- 16. The Myth of Bousiris: Ethnicity and Art / Margaret C. Miller -- 17. Justice, Kingship, and Imperialism: Rhetoric and Reality in Fifth-century B.C. Representations Following the Persian Wars / David Castriota
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-521) and index
Subjects Art, Greek -- Greece -- Athens
Art, Greek -- Themes, motives
Vase-painting, Greek -- Greece -- Athens -- Themes, motives
Outsiders in art.
Art, Ancient -- Greece -- Themes, motives
Greece -- Antiquities.
Additional Authors Cohen, Beth.
Other Title Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art
Donor Watson Library copy: Gift of Beth, Cohen
ISBN 9004116184(hbk.)
9004117121(pbk.)
OCLC 43901444