A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
ISBN: 9780299327231
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Wisconsin Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Art & Art History ; Classical Studies ; History;

Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has been written on scenes of daily life, and what has been written has been tucked away in hard-to-find books and journals. A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases synthesizes this material and expands it: it is the first comprehensive volume to present visual representations of everything from pets and children's games to drunken revelry and funerary rituals.
John H. Oakley's clear, accessible writing provides sound information with just the right amount of detail. Specialists of Greek art will welcome this book for its text and illustrations. This guide is an essential and much-needed reference for scholars and an ideal sourcebook for classics and art history.

John H. Oakley is the Chancellor Professor Emeritus and Forrest D. Murden, Jr. Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary. He is co-author of Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past and the author of Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi , The Greek Vase: The Art of the Storyteller , and many other books and articles.

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