Reading Ancient Objects Inside Out: Greek Figure-Decorated Pottery in Portugal: Greek Figure-Decorated Pottery in Portugal

Reading Ancient Objects Inside Out adopts two complementary approaches to advance the study of ancient Greek vases: a philological view, scripta, and an iconographic view, eikon, the latter comprising two parts, one dealing with the figurative vases already included in the catalogue Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal / Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos gregos em Portugal, and another covering vases that are not included in this work, but which due to their historical and archaeological importance have been considered here, including those without figural motifs. The first part, scripta, brings together seven collaborations in which an essentially mythological, literary and cultural perspective is explored, suggested by the motifs represented on the vases that make up this project. The second part, eikon, additionally includes the iconographic study of some vases made possible thanks to the contributions of various specialists.

Table of Contents:
Foreword  Part I: SCRIPTA Reflections of Theatre in Vase-paintings: an Overview of their Variety – Oliver Taplin The representations of subalternities and asymmetries: theory and practice for the intersectional analysis of Greek vase paintings in Portugal – Brian Kibuuka Epic stories in black and red.Narrative techniques and authorial voice in four Attic black-figure vases in Portugal (ABF 02, 03, and 17) – Carlos A. Martins de Jesus Heracles, the portrait of the hero in literature and plastic arts.Some testimonies – Maria de Fátima Silva Sphinxes, Sirens, Satyrs, Tritons, and Gorgons: Representations of hybrid beings on Greek vases in Portugal – Nuno Simões Rodrigues Animals on Greek vases from Portugal – Carmen Morenillla Talens Men and Women at the Symposium: Insights from Greek Vases in Portugal – Delfim Leão Part II: EIKON (Section One Beauty and the Beast Sphinxes on Corinthian Alabastra and Aryballoi – Marcel Danner “Riders in the Sky”.The motive of the Dioskuroi on Attic Red-Figure column craters and the Cavalry of youths on the Parthenon frieze – Rui Morais, Matthias Steinhart, Giada Giudice and Elvia Giudice Iconographic observations on the Attic Lekythos with Relief Decoration from a private collection in Porto – Elvia Giudice Herakles and the Cretan Bull in South Italian Vase-Painting – Alan Shapiroii  Greek vase productions and the changing iconography.A brief overview focusing on Greek vases from Portuguese museums and collections – Frank Hildebrandt From lions to fish. On Animals and Greek Vases – Matthias Steinhart Apollo, Dionysos and the Power of Music – Florian Leitmeir The male bathing and the bride’s toilette in two Greek vases preserved in Portuguese collections – David Vendrell Cabanillas From Excavation to Iconography: An In-Depth Analysis of Red-Figure Bell Kraters in Portugal – Daniela Filipa de Freitas Ferreira On spatial paintings – Dominik Lengyel & Catherine Toulouse Part III: EIKON (Section Two – New Vases Payne’s in Porto. Three Greek Vases from the Collection of a great Archaeologist – Matthias Steinhart News about a white-ground floral lekythos from the Athenian Agora – Jesús Salas Álvarez & Rui Morais An unpublished lekythos attributed to the Group of London E 614 in Portugal – David Vendrell Cabanillas A “Chalcidian” Neck-Amphora by the Group of the Phineus cup in Portugal – Mario Iozzo and Rui Morais “One of the most competent collectors”: Louis-Gabriel Bellon Gnathian Krateriskos from the Group of the Painter of Zurich 2692 – Louise Detrez, Rui Morais, & Francesca Pesce Bibliography Catalogue Geometric-Attic  Geometric – Boeotia  Italic- Geometric  Corinthian  Etrusco-Corinthian  Eastern Greece  Attic Black-Figure  Attic Red-Figure  Attic White Ground  Etruscan Black-Figure  Etruscan Red-Figure  Bucchero E Impasto Nero  Lucanian Red-Figure  Apulian Red-Figure  Paestum Red-Figure  Campanian Red-Figure  Apulian – Xenon  Campanian – Teano  Apulian Black Glaze  Campanian Black Glazed  Northern Italic Black Glaze  Gnathia  Canosa  Daunia  Miscellaneous  Plates