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"Entertaining as well as scholarly....[A] lively, intelligent, highly polemical book."--The New York Review of Books
"[Vicker's book] should be required reading for all students of Classical Archaeology."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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This book challenges the widely held view that Greek pottery vases were objects of great value in antiquity, commissioned by rich patrons from the greatest artists of the day. Instead, they are shown to have been simply low cost versions of tableware originally made in silver and gold. Vickers and Gill demonstrates how Greek pottery first came to be regarded as a high value commodity in the eighteenth century thanks to clever, if not fraudulent, sales techniques. They explore the ways in which work in gold and silver influenced painted pottery, and examine the primary sources, both literary and epigraphic, to find what materials the ancients did consider to be important.
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- Silver and Society in Late Antiquity: Functions and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries by Ruth E. Leader-Newby on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World) by Loren J. Samons II on page 94, page 152, and Back Matter
- Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530-470 BCE (Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography) by Richard T. Neer in Back Matter
- The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present by Jenifer Neils in Back Matter
- The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge World Archaeology) by James Whitley in Back Matter
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