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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.0//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Greek Vases The Athenians and Their Images</TITLE> <meta name="description" CONTENT="Greek art and society as seen on painted vases; a full color large format illustrated art book."> <meta name="keywords" CONTENT="Greek vases, Greece,Greek art, vases,mythology,red-figure painting,red-figure,black-figure,Dionysos,Herakles,psykter,Kleophrades, Syriskos,amphoras,Lissarrague,Athens,athens,Greek archaeology,archaeology,Greek banquet,Greek heroes"> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#fffffff" a link="#663300" v link="#ff6600"> <h1><font color="#993300">Riverside Book Company, Inc.</font></h1> <h3><font color="#993300">P.O. Box 237043, New York, N.Y. 10023 <br> TEL (212)-595-0700 FAX (212)-595-0700 </font> </h3><h4><a href="http://www.riversidebook.com/index.html">http://www.riversidebook.com</a></h4><br> <TABLE align = "left" BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="6"> <tr><td width ="300" border="2"> <IMG SRC="images/vases.jpg" ALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH="277" HEIGHT="366" BORDER="2"> </td> </tr> </TABLE> <h2><font color="#000077">Greek Vases<br> The Athenians and Their Images</font></h2> <h3><font color="#000077"></font></h3> <h4><font color="#000077">by Francois Lissarrague</font></h4> ISBN: 1-878351-57-5<br> Price: $75.00<p> 240 pages, hardcover<br> with linen binding and french-fold dust-jacket, 10-1/4 x 13"<br> 147 color illustrations, 33 line drawings <p> <p>Cover: Herakles and Dionysos, Attic red-figure psykter, Kleophrades painter, 500 BC, height 0.33m, Compiegne, Musee Vivenel<p> <br> <pre> </pre> <BR CLEAR=all> <blockquote> <b><font color ="#000077" size = +1>G</font></b>reek vases display a great quantity and a wide variety of images, in particular those vases from Athens in the 5th and 6th centuries BC. With a large number of color illustrations, including many full-page details, this book seeks to explain those images, and to help the viewer of the vases understand both the context in which they were used and the significance of the figures which appear on them.<p> <b><font color ="#000077" size = +1>A</font></b>ll the different aspects of Athenian culture and society are considered, with an emphasis on their visual treatment. The vase painters did not attempt to reproduce reality; they staged it, through a series of choices each of which had its own social and aesthetic logic. Each image summoned up another, and was clarified by it. This network of imagery is examined and explained in the book's major themes: the banquet, sex, athletics and competitions, war, domestic life, relationships between men and the gods, Herakles as an exemplar of the Greek hero, the mythic identity of Athens, and the special place of Dionysos. . <p> <b><font color ="#000077" size = +1>T</font></b>he visual story presented here is both informative and entertaining. All those interested in Greek culture and art will find it compelling, as will those interested in the formal study of images and image-making. .<p> <b><font color ="#000077" size = +1>I</font></b>ncluded in the appendices are essays on the rediscovery of Greek vases in the modern era and on artists and attributions, as well as a table of vase shapes, an informative glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography. .<p> </blockquote> <p><b><font color ="#000077" size = +1>About the author:</font></b> <p><b><font color ="#000077" size = +1>A</font></b>fter extended research at CNRS in the Louis Gernet Center founded by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Francois Lissarrague has since 1996 been the director of studies (Anthropology and Image: the Greek Experience) at l'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales. A specialist in Attic imagery, he has participated in many collective works, among which are:City of Images, 1984; Gods and Heroes of Classical Antiquity, with Irene Aghion and Claire Barbillon, 1992; and Les Mysteres du gynecee, with Francoise Frontisi and Paul Veyne, 1997. Since 1996 he has been co-director with Jean-Claude Schmitt of the Gallimard collection "Les Temps des images." He is also the author of The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet, 1987 and L'Autre guerrier; archers, peltastes, cavaliers dans l'imagerie attique, 1990. <p> <p> <b><font color ="#000077" size = +1>Contents:</font></b> <TABLE><TR> <TD align=left valign="top"> </td> <TD align=left valign="top"> Foreword<br> Prologue</td> <td width = "20"> </td> <td valign="top" align="left"rowspan="3"width "230"><IMG SRC="images/vasesbk.jpg" ALIGN=MIDDLE WIDTH="216" HEIGHT="235" BORDER="2"><p> Back cover: Herakles, Attic red-figure kantharos,<br> Syriskos painter, 490 BC, height 0.21m,<br> Paris, Cabinet des Medailles, Bibliotheque Nationale.</td></tr> <TR> <TD align=left valign="top"> 1 <br> 2 <br> 3 <br> 4 <br> 5 <br> 6 <br> 7 <br> 8 <br> 9 <br> </td> <TD align=left valign="top" > At the Banquet <br>Under the Gaze of Eros <br>Athletes, Games, Competitions <br>Warriors and Heroes <br>Passages <br>Men and Gods <br>A Hero for All Dangers <br>Mythic Identity of the Athenians <br>Dionysos and His Followers<p> Epilogue<p> Appendices:<p> The Rediscovery of Greek Vases: Collectors and Museums<br> Artisans and Artists:<br> Signatures and Attributions<br> Table of Shapes<br> Glossary<br> Table of Illustrations<br> References and Bibliographical Sources<br> Index<br> Index of Collections </td></tr> </table> <hr> <p> <a href="index.html">Back to Main Index</a> <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Contact us: [email protected]</a> </BODY> </HTML>