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The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual
By (Author) Franois Lissarrague
Translated by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Society and culture: general
738.3820938
Paperback
160
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
28g
In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, po