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1 online resource (400 pages) |
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Cover; Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour; Contents; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1. Theoretical Approaches; Terminology; General Theories on Humour and General Confusion; A Few Principles Specifically Useful to this Study; 2. Greek Vases and Visual Humour; Greek Vases: Connoisseurship, Context, and Chronology; Connoisseurship; Provenance and Market(s); Chronology; Past Scholarship on Visual Humour; How to Identify Comic Pictures: Methodology and Categories of Visual Humour; Methodology. |
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Mechanisms and Categories of Visual HumourComic Mechanisms; Visual Puns and Parody; Caricature; Situation Comedy; 2 Humour in the City: The World of Men, Women, and Animals; 1. The Comical Inanimate: Visual Puns and Misused Objects; Eye-cups; Apotropaism; Anthropomorphism; Humour: Corrupted Eyes and Visual Puns; Shield Devices; Vase Function: Is this an Oinochoe or a Pissing Pot?; 2. Animals and Situation Comedy: The Disobedient Domestic Animal; Dogs in a Pantry; Dogs in Everyday Life: Workshops, Butchers, Symposia, and Altars; A Misplaced Duck; Horses and Donkeys. |
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3. Everyday Life Stereotypes and Comic Archetypes: Comic WomenRespectable Women, Hetairai, and Pornai; Comic Archetypes: The Sleeping Guardian or the Lazy Woman; Women Gossiping, Getting Drunk, and Sex-crazed; Erotic Thoughts, Dildoes, and some Flying Penises; 4. Treatment of Foreigners and Political Satire; A Drunk Scythian; Eurymedon; 5. Reprehensible Social Behaviour; Drinking In Excess; Gluttons; 3 Humour in the City: Gods, heroes, and myth; 1. Heroes Ridiculed; Peleus; Judgement of Paris; Diomedes; Ilioupersis; Bellerophon; Pygmies and Cranes; Herakles. |
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A Caricature of Herakles ApotheosisHerakles and the Lion Skin; Herakles and Old Age; Tricked Tricksters, Surprise, and the Degradation of Status; Eurystheus and the Erymanthian Boar (Tables 5A-B, 12); Inversion and the Kerkopes Brothers; Herakles: A Super-hero or a Super-glutton?; 2. Gods Degraded; Athena and Pseudo Panathenaic Amphorae; Nature of the Objects and their Iconography; Corrupted Iconography and Comic Iconography; Athena and the Owl: A Special Relationship; Hermes the Trickster: Gods Made Children: The Benevolent Laugh. |
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Poking Fun at Poliadic Cult In the tondo of a cup in Vienna (fig. 62), Hermes leads what appears to be a pig to an altar. It is in fact a dog disguised as a pig. The feet are clearly those of a dog. A genuine sacrifice is depicted on another cup attributed to the same painter, the Epidromos Painter. On this cup in Paris (fig. 63), two youths are sacrificing a pig at an altar beside a tree. While one of them is holding the animal, the other wields a machaira. Pigs were sacrificed to Demeter. T ... |
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Hermaic Cult Hermaic pillars, or herms, were usually rectangular pillars with the head of the god Hermes and an erect phallus. They were found and venerated at crossroads, in domestic gardens, at the palestra, and a number of other places. The herms are found well into the second century AD. A red-figure pelike in Berlin, attributed to the Pan Painter, shows a very unusual herm. It has an extended phallos, which is longer than half the length of its whole body. A large bird is sitting on the ... |
| Summary |
This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-344) and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Vase-painting, Greek.
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Vase-painting, Greek. |
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Wit and humor, Pictorial.
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Wit and humor, Pictorial. |
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Art and society -- Greece.
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Art and society. |
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Greece. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Mitchell, Alexandre G. Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009 9780521513708 |
| ISBN |
9781107723603 |
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1107723604 |
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9781107731738 |
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1107731739 |
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9781139193290 |
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1139193295 |
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9780521513708 |
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0521513707 |
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