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Hardcover Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi Book

ISBN: 0521820162

ISBN13: 9780521820165

Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi

The Attic white lekythoi, funerary vases long appreciated for their beautiful polychrome images, evoke the style of lost classical wall and mural paintings. This richly illustrated volume closely examines the four major types of scenes: domestic pictures; the mythological conductors of the soul; the prothesis (wake); and visits to the grave. John Oakley analyzes these pictures in context, documenting relationships between the rites of passage, Athenian...

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