Sex and Pottery: Erotic Images on Athenian Cups, 600-300 B.C.

<p>Many pages have been written concerning erotic images on Greek vases but few studies have focused on the frequency of erotic images. This is an important concept in determining the significance of the erotic images. Various Athenian cups from the online holdings of the Beazley Archive were investigated, using simple tabulations and Chi-square analysis, for erotic images. Out of 7901 cups only 130 had erotic images. As cups with erotic images represented only a small portion of the sample it was likely that they only appealed to the tastes of a small sub-set of the Athenian population. The context of these images is questionable and the historical community should use them with caution.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MA (Master of Arts)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - unrestricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Banner, Michael Lee

• Athenian
• painting
• images
• Keywords: Greek
• erotic
• cups
• Arts and Humanities
• Cultural History
• History

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/842

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-1999