8. Aeschylus’ Niobe and Apulian funerary Symbolism

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Acknowledgements 3
3. Introduction. Contents 5
4. List of Illustrations 11
5. Key to special Abbreviations 19
6. 1. Mystery Elements in Menander’s Dyscolus 27
7. 2. The Ass in the Cult of Dionysus as a Symbol of Toil and Suffering 41
8. 3. The Samia of Menander: An Interpretation of its Plot and Theme 71
9. 4. Une Cible de la Satire: Le locus amoenus 93
10. 5. Skiagraphia once again 107
11. 6. Ethos in Menander 145
12. 7. The happy Ending: Classical Tragedy and Apulian funerary Art 153
13. 8. Aeschylus’ Niobe and Apulian funerary Symbolism 169
14. 9. Rhetoric and visual Aids in Greece and Rome 201
15. 10. The Hetaera and the Housewife: The Splitting of the female Psyche in Greek Art 217
16. 11. The Brink of Death in Classical Greek Painting 245
17. 12. Patriotic Propaganda and counter-cultural Protest in Athens as evidenced by Vase Painting 271
18. 13. The gentle Satire of the Penthesileia Painter: A new Cup with Dionysiac Motifs 277
19. 14. The social Position of Attic Vase Painters and the Birth of Caricature 283
20. 15. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae and the Beazley Archive Project: Different Databases for the Study of Greek Iconography 293
21. 16. Clytemnestra and Telephus in Greek Vase-Painting 313
22. 17. The feminist View of the Past: A Comment on the ‘Decentering’ of the Poems of Ovid 325
23. 18. Rembrandt’s Use of Classical Motifs 331
24. 19. The Greek medical Texts and the sexual Ethos of ancient Athens 345
25. 20. Scenes from Attic Tragedy on Vases found in Sicily and Lipari 361
26. Bibliography of original Publications 371
27. Figures 375