Die 'Opferrinne-Zeremonie' : Bankettideologie am Grab, Orientalisierung und Formierung einer Adelsgesellschaft in Athen : mit 30 Abbildlungen

Study of the development of the Athenian aristocracy by means of the analysis of archaic offering cups/channels? found in the Hagia Triada area in the Kerameikos, the Athenian cemetery. The author discusses the possible types of ceremony for which the cups were used, formal innovations, traditionsand orientalization of the vessel forms. He compares his results with Homeric scenes of banquets and the aristocratic self-representation and the banquet-ideology in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. With catalogue