Images at the Crossroads

Judith M. Barringer is Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1995); The Hunt in Ancient Greece (2001); Art, Myth, Ritual in Classical Greece (2008), the award-winning The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (2014) and Olympia: A Cultural History (Princeton UP 2021). François Lissarrague is Directeur d’études Emeritus at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His extensive publications on images, particularly vase painting, include La cité des images 1984,Un flot d’images: Une esthétique du banquet grec (1987); L’autre guerrier: Archers, peltastes, cavaliers dans l’imagerie attique (1990); Héros et dieux de l’antiquité: Guide iconographique (1994, co-authored with I. Aghion and C. Barbillon); Vases Grecs. Les Athéniens et leurs images (1999); La cité des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athènes VIe-Ve siècle avantJ.-C.), (2013). His works have been translated into English, German and Italian.

Images at the Crossroads is a truly remarkable publication in whole and in its parts, which stands to have a major impact on future research on the interpretation of images from antiquity. It is ground-breaking in its scope and depth of analysis, and, with its strong emphasis on sociocultural and sociohistorical approaches, constitutes a most appropriate homage to François Lissarrague’s enduring scholarly heritage.

• List of Illustrations vAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction 1I. Making Meaning: How Do Images Work? 131. François Lissarrague Ways of Making Sense: Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art 14 2. Annette Haug Images and History in Eighth and Seventh Century B.C. Athens: A Discursive Analytical Approach 403. Martina SeifertKnowledge and the Production of Meaning: Greek Vase-Imagery Reconsidered 634. Luca GiulianiImages and Storytelling 82 II. Interpretation and Perception 1035. Mauro Menichetti The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory 1046. Adrian StaehliParapictoriality 117III. Reflections of the City and Its Craftsmen 1377. Dyfri WilliamsLes Images de la Cité - The Vase Painter’s Gaze 1388. Tonio HölscherAgain: Working Scenes on Athenian Vases—Images between Social Values and Aesthetic Reality 203IV. Constructions of Myth Through Images 2269. Marion MeyerOf Gods and Giants: Myth and Images in the Making 22710. Véronique DasenThe Fabric of Myth in Ancient Glyptic 252 11. François de CallataÿGreek Coin Iconography in Context: Eight Specificities that Differentiate Them from Other Visual Media 275V. Clay and Stone: Material Matters 29412. Andrew StewartParagone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek Painting and Sculpture 295 13. H.A. ShapiroCommunicating with the Divine in Marble and Clay 328 14. Judith M. BarringerThe Message is in the Medium: White-Ground Lekythoi and Stone Grave Markers in Classical Athens 363 15. Arthur MullerGreek Figurative Terracottas of the Archaic Period: Problematic Images? From Identification to Meaning and Function 37816. Victoria SabetaiImages in Dialogue: Picturing Identities in Boiotian Stone, Clay, and Metal 39817. Stefan SchmidtImages of Drinking and Laughing: Vessels and Votives in the Theban Kabirion 43018. Ken LapatinBeyond Ceramics and Stone: The Iconography of the Precious 461VI. Honoring the Dead 477 19. Nikolaus DietrichArchaic Grave Reliefs: Body or Stele? 47820. Dimitri PaleothodorosOn Vases, Terracottas, and Bones: How to Read Funerary Assemblages from Sixth- and Fifth-Century Greece 50821. Mark Stansbury-O’DonnellWinged Figures and Mortals at a Crossroad 526About the Contributors 547Bibliography 551Index 674