Traveling, in theory: movement as metaphor in the Ancient Greek Andron

• Autores: Hallie Franks
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 96, Nº 2, 2014, págs. 156-169
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Scholars have long acknowledged the capacity of imagery on Greek sympotic vases to participate in their context, treating symposiasts to tricks of the eye, puns, and metaphoric allusions. The potential of mosaic decoration in the Classical andron (the location of the private symposium) to participate in the symposium in a similarly active way has received less attention. A study of examples of mosaic iconography in combination with prescribed movements that took place during the symposium leads to the proposal that some andrones encouraged the experience of the space through the metaphoric theme of the symposium as a journey at sea.