Description
Book SynopsisAncient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. By bringing together—for the first time in English-language scholarship—an international group of leading scholars in classical art and archaeology who have worked on vase-inscriptions, this book investigates epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions on pottery as well as their broader iconographic and sociocultural significance. The ten chapters in this book propose original and expert methodological approaches to the study of vase-inscriptions and vasepaintings, while also foregrounding the outstanding but not fully examined importance of the area of vase-inscriptions for current research on ancient Greek visual representations. Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings constitutes a major contribution to the fields of Greek epigraphy and classical art and archaeology and will prove significant for epigraphists, archaeologists, and art-historians interested in the complexities of the interaction of art and text.
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Table of ContentsPreface: Art and Epigraphy: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions - Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Inscriptions and Visual Representations on Attic Vases: Questions, Methodologies, Technical and Contextual Approaches
Chapter One: Soundscapes (and Two Speaking Lyres) - Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Chapter Two: Hipparchos kalos - Thomas Mannack
Chapter Three: ‘So-and-so καλή’: A Reexamination - Guy Hedreen
Chapter Four: Inscribed Mythical Names on Attic Vase-Paintings from 570 to 530 BC: A Contextual Approach - Burkhard Fehr
Chapter Five: Meaningless, But Not Useless!: Nonsense Inscriptions on Athenian Little-Master Cups - Pieter Heesen
Inscriptions on Apulian Vases
Chapter Six: Inscriptions on Apulian Red-Figure Vases: A Survey - John H. Oakley
Chapter Seven: Some Observations on Apulian Vase-Inscriptions with a Particular Focus on the Darius Painter - Thomas H. Carpenter
Visual Identities: Attic and Corinthian Vase-Inscriptions and the Significance of their Placement
Chapter Eight: Instant Messaging: Dance, Text, and Visual Communication on Archaic Corinthian and Athenian Vases - Tyler Jo Smith
Chapter Nine: Tracing Letters on the Eurymedon Vase: On the Importance of Placement of Vase-Inscriptions - Georg Simon Gerleigner
Chapter Ten: Sophilos, Inscriptions, and the Funeral Games for Patroklos - Mary Moore
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