Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens

By Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell

Book Overview

This study explores the phenomenon of spectators in the Classical world through a database built from a census of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, which reveals that spectator figures flourished in Athenian vase painting during the last two-thirds of the sixth century BCE. Using models developed from psychoanalysis and the theory of the gaze, ritual studies, and gender studies, Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell demonstrates how these "spectators" emerge as models for social and gender identification in the archaic city, encoding in their gestures and behavior archaic attitudes about gender and status.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110766280X
• ISBN13: 9781107662803
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"