Figures of Speech

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"Over the past two hundred years, thousands of ancient Greek vases have been unearthed. Yet these artifacts remain a challenge: what did the images depicted on these vases actually mean to ancient Greek viewers? In this long-awaited book, Gloria Ferrari uses Athenian vases literary evidence, and other works of art from the Archaic and Classical periods (520-400 B.C.) to investigate what these items can tell us about the ancient Greeks - specifically, their notions of gender."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Vases, greek,  Women in art,  Greek Vases,  Themes, motives,  Male nude in art,  Man-woman relationships in art