Product Description: As published excavated contexts become more plentiful and as older contexts are reexamined, it has become increasingly possible to consider Greek figure-decorated pottery from the perspective of its use. The essays in this volume explore the relationship between image and use in different contexts, with an emphasis on the user and consumer-that is, they explore the possible meanings images had for the individuals who obtained the objects on which they appear...read more

Product Description: During the last seventy-five years the international Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project has created an enormous database of ancient Greek pottery held in public and private collections. In 1984, a handy Summary Guide was published to help students find their way around the 239 fascicules, with their differing editorial systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an extensive study of Dionysian imagery found primarily in scenes on red-figure vases of the fifth-century BC but also in the architectural sculpture, coins, and theatre of the same period. Thomas Carpenter seeks to define a methodology for using this imagery as evidence for cultural and religious activity, and challenges some commonly-held views about the meaning of Dionysian iconography, at the same time pointing to problems inherent in the evidence under scrutiny...read more

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Product Description: The Beazley lists of Athenian black-figure and red-figure vases by painters, groups and classes have long been the basis for studies in Greek art history. This new edition, more than double the size of the previous one, brings up to date the bibliographical references to illustrations of vases listed in Beazley's ABV, ARV2, and Paralipomena, adding references to 1987...read more

Product Description: This study examines the development of Dionysian imagery in Greek vase painting from the first appearance of the god on an Attic vase c. 580 BC to the point at which red figure overtook black figure as the dominant style of vase painting in Attica c. 520 BC.