Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece: Iconography and the Literary Arts

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frontmatter......Page 1 Acknowledgements......Page 5 INIRODUCTION......Page 7 CONTENTS......Page 11 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 13 KEY TO SPECIAL ABBREVIATIONS......Page 21 MYSTERY ELEMENTS IN MENANDER'S DYSCOLUS......Page 29 THE ASS IN THE CULT OF DIONYSUS AS A SYMBOL OF TOIL AND SUFFERING......Page 43 THE SAMIA OF MENANDER: AN INTERPRETATION OF ITS PLOT AND THEME......Page 73 UNE CIBLE DE LA SATIRE: LE LOCUS AMOENUS......Page 95 SKIAGRAPHIA ONCE AGAIN......Page 109 ETHOS IN MENANDER......Page 147 THE HAPPY ENDING: CLASSICAL TRAGEDY AND APULIAN FUNERARY ART......Page 155 AESCHYLUS' NIOBE AND APULIAN FUNERARY SYMBOLISM......Page 171 RHETORIC AND VISUAL AIDS IN GREECE AND ROME......Page 203 THE HETAERA AND THE HOUSEWIFE: THE SPLITTING OF THE FEMALE PSYCHE IN GREEK ART......Page 219 THE BRINK OF DEATH IN CLASSICAL GREEK PAINTING......Page 247 Patriotic Propaganda and counter-cultural Protest in Athens as evidenced by Vase Painting......Page 273 The gentle Satire of the Penthesileia Painter: A new Cup with Dionysiac Motifs......Page 279 The social Position of Attic Vase Painters and the Birth of Caricature......Page 285 The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae and the Beazley Archive Project: Different Databases for the Study of Greek Iconography......Page 295 Clytemnestra and Telephus in Greek Vase-Painting......Page 315 The feminist View of the Past: A Comment on the ‘Decentering’ of the Poems of Ovid......Page 327 REMBRANDTS USE OF CLASSICAL MOTIFS......Page 333 THE GREEK MEDICAL TEXTS AND THE SEXUAL ETHOS OF ANCIENT ATHENS......Page 347 Scenes from Attic Tragedy on Vases found in Sicily and Lipari......Page 363 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS......Page 373 Figures......Page 377