2010
DOI: 10.1353/mou.2010.0020
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Warriors’ Injuries on Red-Figure Vases

Abstract: To judge from Greek literary sources, to be wounded in the back was shameful, for it connoted that the victim had failed to stand firm in battle and turned to flight. It is of interest, therefore, to survey the numerous representations of battle on Attic red-figure vases to see whether this negative aspect is manifest in the visual realm. It transpires that there is no consistent effort by Athenian vase-painters to imbue back wounds with a pejorative or negative aspect, even when a clearly identifiable enemy i… Show more

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