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Picturing Death in Classical Athens

Picturing Death in Classical Athens

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography

Art HistoryPottery & Ceramics

ISBN10: 0521820162
ISBN13: 9780521820165
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 7 2005
Pages: 306
Weight: 2.64
Height: 0.93 Width: 8.76 Depth: 11.10
Language: English
The Attic white lekythoi, funerary vases long appreciated for their beautiful polychrome images, evoke the style of lost classical wall and mural paintings. This richly illustrated volume closely examines the four major types of scenes: domestic pictures; the mythological conductors of the soul; the prothesis (wake); and visits to the grave. John Oakley analyzes these pictures in context, documenting relationships between the rites of passage, Athenian history, and the changing perceptions of death in fifth-century Athens.

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