1. Greek vases and Greek households

2. 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

3. 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?

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

5.
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.

6. http://www. britishmuseum
Museum number
1814,
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

7. 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

8. http://library. artstor. org. offcampus. lib. washington
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 Number
SubjectKylix

9. 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 Number Ja.200.tif

10. Makron
Painter
TitleKylix (wine cup)
Work TypeDecorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Dateabout 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

11. Makron
Painter
TitleKylix (wine cup)
Work TypeDecorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Dateabout 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

12. 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
Accession NumberF 2624
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