Greek vases and Greek households

Key terms to know oikos -household gyne – woman, wife symposium – drinking party, wives not included hetaira – mistress types of pottery: hydria – large jar for carrying water kylix – drinking cup at symposium epinetron – thigh guard for spinning wool kalathos – wool basket pyxis – small cosmetic jar

Big questions how much can vase painting tell us about life in Athenian households? what was considered to be important for the formation of a household? what would it involve to have a diversity perspective on Greek vases?

https://commons. wikimedia https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woman_spinning_MAR_Palermo_NI2149.jpg Woman spinning MAR Palermo NI2149.jpg Woman spinning; a kalathos on the ground. Attic red-figure lekythos, 480–470 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynaeceum#/media/File:NAMA_Gyn%C3%A9c%C3%A9e_2.jpg Familial scene in the gynaeceum. Attic red-figure lebes gamikos after the manner of the Ariadne Painter, ca. 430 BC. National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1250.

http://www. britishmuseum http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=15031001&objectId=464109&partId=1 Museum number 1814,0704.1205 Description Front:Right Side Pottery: black-figured epinetron (to protect the thigh when rolling wool) decorated with scenes of women preparing wool, and with a woman's head modelled at the closed end. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Museum number 1873,0111.7 Description Detail: Other Pottery: red-figured pyxis: women at home, with the names of heroines. © The Trustees of the British Museum http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=370989001&objectId=461232&partId=1

http://library. artstor. org. offcampus. lib. washington http://library.artstor.org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/#/asset/SS35538_35538_29885968Kylix Dateca. 480 BC MaterialCeramic Measurements12 3/4 x 5 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (32.4 x 13.7 x 7.4 cm) Style PeriodLate Archaic DescriptionA defining feature of the culture of ancient Greece was the symposion. After dinner, a group of men would recline on couches arranged on three sides around a room (triklinion). As they drank wine mixed with water, they might perform religious rituals, recite poetry with musical accompaniment, talk on the topics of the day, and play party games. Both the interior and exterior of this cup represent such a gathering. The symposiasts lean against striped cushions. One pours a libation to the gods from a phiale. Several are playing kottabos, a popular game in which a player, holding up a cup, flings a few drops of wine toward a target in order to dislodge it. The winner might be awarded a prize, such as a kiss from one of those present. Dregs that by mistake hit a fellow guest would prompt laughter. Above the heads hang more drinking cups, baskets, and walking sticks. Three types of musical instruments are shown: the lyre, the barbitos (both stringed instruments), and the aulos (an oboelike wind instrument), here represented in leopardskin cases. A silhouette frieze below the figures outside depicts a row of sympotic vessels-jugs (oinochoai), cups (kylikes), and mugs (skyphoi). Inscriptions on both the exterior and interior made of letters and blobs do not convey specific meaning; rather, they may be intended to convey the liveliness of this party's conversation. RepositoryMichael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University Accession Number1998.008 SubjectKylix

TitleVessel(red-figure kylix; ht. 5 1/2"; diam. 12 1/2"). Dateca. 490 B.C. MaterialTerra Cotta. Style PeriodGreek Early Classical Period; Attica The Classical World, Hellenic Era, Greek Early Classical Period, Attica DescriptionYoung man wearing wreathe of vines, holding walking stick, inclining his head forward while he vomits; young slave girl holding his head between her hands.The young man has just been to a party, as shown by the wreathe he still wears. The common aftermath is vividly and tenderly portrayed here. The artist has transformed a squalid occurence into a moment of beauty, not only through the purely decorative design but by a tenderness in the girl's action, expressed (as feeling is often expressed in Greek art) not so much in the face as in the whole figure: movement, gesture, the angle of the head.The girl's short hair shows her to be a slave, but her tenderness and concern seem to show something more than a mere master-slave relationship between the two.  Signed by Brygos as potter; painting attributed to Brygos Painter. RepositoryWürzburg: Mus., Martin Von Wagner; no. 479. From Vulci (Etruria). Accession Number3Ja.200 CollectionThe Archive for Research on Archetypal Symbolism ID Number65086 3Ja.200.tif

Makron Painter TitleKylix (wine cup) Work TypeDecorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Dateabout 490-480 B.C. MaterialCeramic, Red figure MeasurementsHeight: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.) Style PeriodLate Archaic Period DescriptionGreece Attica Athens Detail RepositoryMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston, Massachusetts, USA Henry Lillie Pierce Fund 01.8022 http://www.mfa.org/

Makron Painter TitleKylix (wine cup) Work TypeDecorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects Dateabout 490-480 B.C. MaterialCeramic, Red figure MeasurementsHeight: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.) DescriptionGreece Attica Athens Detail RepositoryMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston, Massachusetts, USA Henry Lillie Pierce Fund 01.8022 http://www.mfa.org/ http://library.artstor.org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/#/asset/AMICO_BOSTON_103828835

CreatorPainter of Berlin 2624 [Maler von Berlin 2624] TitleEpinetron: Seated Woman with Alabastron, Youths [Attisches Epinetron; Gerät zur Wollebereitung mit Darstellungen von Jünglingen und Frauen auf beiden Seiten] Work Typeceramics Dateca. 450 BCE Materialterracotta, red-figure Ton, rotfigurig Measurementslength: 27 cm; diameter at front: 18 cm Style PeriodAttic DescriptionFound in Athens. Photographer: Ingrid Geske RepositoryAntikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin http://www.smb.museum/smb/home/index.php?lang=de Accession NumberF 2624 Related ItemBeazley Vase Number: 216679 http://library.artstor.org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/#/asset/BERLIN_DB_10313751828