Output details
31 - Classics
University of Oxford
Chapter title
Göttliche Liebesverfolgungen in Unteritalien
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Beck
Book title
Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer: Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum
ISBN of book
9783406625671
Year of publication
2012
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article analyses representation of divine erotic pursuits. They were a fairly short-lived phenomenon in Athens in the Late Archaic period, when they represented divine intervention and were euphemisms for an early death, intended to give comfort. Attic potteries continued to supply Greeks in Italy with pursuit scenes. When the inhabitants of Italy began to make vases for tombs, they included comforting pursuit scenes, and also created an adult Eros, who may have been copied by Athenian painters. With time, interfering gods and goddesses used chariots, assimilating the images to divine marriages and the apotheosis of Herakles.
