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Images of Women. Lecture outline. Issues with interpretation Constructing the woman in the domestic context The Veil Nudity Identifying prostitutes . Constructing the Domestic. Images of women without men – ‘domestic’ Provide insight into otherwise hidden world? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Images of Women
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Lecture outline• Issues with interpretation• Constructing the woman in the domestic context• The Veil• Nudity• Identifying prostitutes
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Constructing the Domestic• Images of women without men – ‘domestic’• Provide insight into otherwise hidden world?• However – images reflect a construction of gender
produced by society• Not to be taken at face value!• Who was the intended viewer?• A figured vase can be used to promote concepts of
femininity to all viewers
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Eroticism to female romanticism
Red-figure lekythos, 475-425 BC
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Adornment
Red-figure hydria,430 BC
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Suspended ObjectsMirrors, vases, sashes – floating in space used to represent the female space
Red-figure, white-ground lekythos475-425 BC
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Invisible Bride
Red-figure bowl, 550 BC
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Abducting your bride
Red-figure pyxis, 550 BC
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Beautiful Loutrophoros
Red-figure loutrophoros, 430-20 B C
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Red-figure lebes gamikos, 450-400 BC
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Plaque fragment; woman carrying a kalathos
• What is a kalathos and how was it used?• Where do you think this plaque would have been
used?• What is the message of the plaque?
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Red figure pyxis; women in various postions• What is a pyxis and what is it used for?• What activities are happening in these scenes?• What objects are suspended in the scene and why? (arrow points to suspended alabastron
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Red-figure pelike; woman and two youths• What do you think this vessel would be used for?• What is the woman holding and why?• What do you think is happening here?
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Red-figure, white ground lekythos; woman at stele with male figure
• What is a lekythos and how was it used?• Where do you think the represented scene occurred?• What do you think the woman is doing?• How can you explore the figure of the man?
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Veiled Bride
Red-figure loutrophoros, 450-400
Red-figure oinochoe, 500-450
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Veiling • Resistance to consider Greek women as veiled• Veil created portable seclusion for women – gives more
freedom/independence • The veil as a gesture
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Veiling males and adolescents
Red-figure pelike, 475-425 BC
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The Veil
Red-figure white ground lekythos, 450-400 BCRed-figure amphora, 475-425 BC
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Nudity in the ritual context
Red-figure krater, 430-420 BC
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Spinning Hetaira?
Red-figure hydria, 440-430 BC
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Paying for it…
Red-figure skyphos, 460 BC
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Red-figure cup, 460-450 BC
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Who?
Red-figure psykter, 510 BC
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Sex outside the symposium
Red-figure cup, 475-425 BC