“To Dream the Impossible Dream”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Foreword xvii
7. H. Alan Shapiro: Bibliography xix
8. Myth into Art
9. Helen Re-Claimed, Troy Re-Visited: Scenes of Troy in Archaic Greek Art 3
10. Polyxena’s Dropped Hydria: The Epic Cycle and the Iconography of Gravity in Athenian Vase Painting 15
11. Myth into Art: A Black-figure Column Krater from Castle Ashby at the University of Virginia 31
12. The Serpent in the Garden: Herakles, Ladon, and the Hydra 43
13. Reflections on Triton 53
14. Herakles and Geras in Etruria 65
15. Theseus and Aithra! A Forgotten Fragment and an Old Problem 69
16. Theseus and Periphetes by the Sabouroff Painter? 77
17. Dressing to Hunt. Some Remarks on the Calyx Krater from the So-called House of C. Julius Polybius in Pompei 91
18. Phrixos’ Self-sacrifice and his “Euphemia” 105
19. Philoktetes in Brauron (Attica) and Volterra (Etruria) 117
20. The Tombs of Amazons 127
21. Iconography of Mourning
22. The Wretchedness of Old Kings 141
23. Athenian State Monuments for the War Dead: Evidence from a Loutrophoros 153
24. Women as Gift Givers and Gift Producers in Ancient Athenian Funerary Ritual 161
25. Volgei nescia: On the Paradox of Praising Women’s Invisibility 175
26. Reduced Myths: Roman Ash Chests with Mythological Scenes 185
27. Roman Sarcophagi in the Toledo Museum of Art 197
28. Art and Cult
29. Bathing in the Sanctuaries of Asklepios and Apollo Maleatas at Epidauros 211
30. The Three Graces at the Panathenaia 233
31. Hermes and the Athenian Acropolis: Hermes Enagonios (?) on a Red-figure Miniature Amphora of Panathenaic Shape by the Bulas Group 243
32. Ἀναθήματα on the Athenian Acropolis and in the Sanctuary of the Nymph (600–560 BCE): The Case of the Skyphoi 255
33. The Artificial Sculptural Image of Dionysos in Athenian Vase Painting and the Mythological Discourse of Early Greek Life 267
34. Satyrs as Women and Maenads as Men: Transvestites and Transgression in Dionysian Worship 281
35. Courtship Scenes
36. “To Dream the Impossible Dream” 297
37. Hare and the Dog: Eros Tamed 311
38. A Type γ Courting Scene for Alan: The Spitzer Amphora at Bryn Mawr College 319
39. A Lazy Afternoon 335
40. Narrative Strategies
41. A Matter of Style/Why Style Matters: A Birth of Athena Revisited 341
42. Story and Status: The François Vase and the Krater from Vix 349
43. A Frame for Names: The Case of the Hydria Louvre F 28 363
44. Composition and Narrative on Skyphoi of the Penelope Painter 373
45. Where Should We Place the Krater? An Optimistic Reconstruction of the Vessel’s Visibility during the Symposion 385
46. Manipulating Mastoi: The Female Breast in the Sympotic Setting 399
47. Laconian Wine 413
48. Arion the Methymnian and Dionysos Methymnaios: Myth and Cult in Herodotus’ Histories 425
49. The Mozia Charioteer: A Revision 435
50. An Ancient Plaster Cast in New York: A Ptolemaic Syncretistic Goddess 449
51. The Non-Human Paradox: Being Political in Aristotle’s Zoology 455
52. Are We Rome? 467
53. Bibliography 483
54. Index 539
55. Color Plates 569