Shoes, slippers, and sandals : feet and footwear in classical antiquity / edited by Sadie Pickup and Sally Waite.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction: surveying shoes, slippers and sandals; Notes; Bibliography; PART 1: Envisaging footwear; 1. Sandals on the wall: the symbolism of footwear on Athenian painted pottery; The iconography of the Shefton cup; Objects in the field; Representing sandals; Painters; Scene-types with hanging sandals; Provenance; Shapes and viewers; Conclusion: the significance of hanging sandals; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography.
- 2. At the symposium: why take off our boots? The significance of boots placed underneath the kline on Attic red-figure vase painting (c.500-440 BC)Objects in the field; Travelling boots; Sympotic boots; Citizenship; Drunkenness; Eroticism and sexual initiation; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Donning footwear: the invention and diffusion of an iconographic motif in archaic Athens; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Pantāi krēpides: shoe-talk from Homer to Herodas; Notes; Bibliography; PART 2: Following footprints.
- 5. Simon the Athenian: archaeological, sociological and philosophical remarks on a philosopher shoemakerNotes; Bibliography; 6. Stepping onto the stage: Aeschylus' Oresteia and tragic footwear; Footwear in iconographic conceptions of the reunion of Orestes and Electra; Footwear in Orestes' first entry in Choephoroe; Possible significance of Orestes' footwear in Choephoroe's opening; Significance of bared feet: vulnerability and poverty; Religious significance: sanctuary ritual and initiation; Social and cultural significance of removing footwear; Orestes' footwear on his second entry (653ff.)
- ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; 7. A colossal porphyry foot in Newcastle; History of ownership; Authenticity; Significance of porphyry; Imperial statue; Anatomical ex-voto; Sarapis feet; Notes; Bibliography; PART 3: One from a pair; 8. The left foot aryballos wearing a network sandal; Findspots; Date; Workshop; Fabrics; Style; Archaeological contexts; Appendix: late archaic foot aryballoi clad in network sandals; Notes; Bibliography; 9. One shoe off and one shoe on: the motif of monosandalism in Classical Greece; Notes; Bibliography; 10. A slip and a slap: Aphrodite and her footwear.
- From sandal to slipper: Aphrodite, Pan and Eros from DelosSandals as a tool . . .; Clarifying the action: binding or removing the sandal?; Women's shoes; Sandals as for a bride; Notes; Bibliography; 11. Achilles' discovery on Skyros: status and representation of the monosandalos in Roman art; The iconographic scheme of Achilles' discovery on Skyros; The representation and meaning of the 'lost slipper' in the myth of Achilles; Achilles: a monosandalos?; Note; Bibliography; PART 4: Between representation and reality.