Reading Greek Vases

Ann Steiner is Shirley Watkins Steinman Professor of Classics, and Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Franklin & Marshall College. A scholar of Greek art, she is author of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Joslyn Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum: Ancient Greek Pottery. Her field experience includes work at ancient Torone, Corinth, and Poggio Colla where she has been Director of Research since 2002. She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

• 1. Reading beyond aesthetics; 2. The meaning(s) of repetition: a primer; 3. Repetition and types; 4. 'Read Me': repetition as metadiscourse; 5. Reading writing; 6. Repetition and narration; 7. Repetition and paradigm; 8. Repetition, character, and perspective; 9. Repetition and parody; 10. Reading everything: six case studies; 11. Over and over: reading Greek vases in Symposion.

"This book presents a convincing argument for the multivalency of repetition among scenes on a single vase. Such repetition is normally ignored, considered incidental to other meaning, or overlooked altogether on the grounds that it is insignificant to narrative. Steiner has made a sound case for the relevancy of even small redundancies and for the interconnectedness of individual scenes on a vase." - Kathleen M. Lynch, University of Cincinnati