Greek vase-painting and the origins of visual humour

Mitchell, Alexandre G.

doi:10.5860/choice.47-4215

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Echoes of the Rejection of the Aulos in Augustan Poetry

Wysłucha¹

2019

Greek Rom. Music. Stud.

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Athenian elites of the late fifth century BC rebelled against aulos-playing as part of the school curriculum and launched a socio-cultural campaign against the instrument. Echoes of this ‘anti-aulos’ crusade reverberated in literature in the centuries to follow as motifs of hostility towards aulos music. Ovid (Fasti 6.657-710) and Propertius (2.30b) engage in this discourse, largely disregarding the motives of the Athenians for spurning the instrument; instead they embed the rejection myths in their poetical programmes in the context of their precarious relationship with Augustan authority. This paper argues that while both poets oppose the rejection of the doublepipes, they do so for entirely different reasons. Although the negative image of the aulos is present in Latin literary sources, it is largely disconnected from the substantial role of the instrument in Roman musical culture.

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Echoes of the Rejection of the Aulos in Augustan Poetry

Wysłucha¹

2019

Greek Rom. Music. Stud.

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The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency

Lee¹

2017

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Prostitutes, Plonk, and Play: Female Banqueters on a Red-figure Psykter from the Hermitage

Glazebrook¹

2012

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My examination of the female banqueters on this psykter investigates gender ideologies in Attic vase painting, but also humor, eroticism and the use of stereotypes in late-archaic Athens. I suggest this image of female banqueters helped male symposiasts bond and reinforced the privileged position of the Athenian male citizen. The similarity of this image to the actual symposium forced the symposiast to reflect on his behavior, while its differences worked to identify any female at the symposium as "other." In the process, I also unravel attitudes towards the female prostitute and problematize the identification "hetaira" given to female banqueters.

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Greek vase-painting and the origins of visual humour

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Echoes of the Rejection of the Aulos in Augustan Poetry

Echoes of the Rejection of the Aulos in Augustan Poetry

The Gendered Economics of Greek Bronze Mirrors: Reflections on Reciprocity and Feminine Agency

Prostitutes, Plonk, and Play: Female Banqueters on a Red-figure Psykter from the Hermitage

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