The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual (Un Flot D'images) by Francois Lissarrague; Translator-Andrew Szegedy-Maszak - 1990-12

Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Princeton University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0691035954 . Very faint shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). ; 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, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so… Read More

Princeton Univ Pr. Used - Very Good. 1990. Hardcover. Dj. 150 pp. Light shelfwear. Otherwise, Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greece).

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Princeton:: Princeton University Press,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0691035954 . Translated from the French by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak. First American printing. Near fine in a very good (sun faded along the spine) dust jacket. .

Princeton University Press, 1990-11-21. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Princeton: Princeton Univ. Pr, 1990. First English language edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1990, First Edition in English. 150 pp. Hardcover, illustrated. Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Like New.

A large removed-label mark to rear fixed flyleaf. Good. Textual illustrations. Classical Antiquity Princeton University Press Princeton (1990) orig. cloth 24x15cm, vii,150 pp., Rubberstamp to rear flyleaf. Contentsd: The Greek Experience of Wine; The Space of the Krater; Manipulations; Drinking Games; Reflections; Wine & the Wine-dark Sea; Song & Image; Epilogue: Drink to Me with Thine Eyes.