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List of illustrations

  • Fragment of a funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Dionysia
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Korallion, wife of Agathon
  • View of the Street of Tombs in the Kerameikos, Athens
  • Peribolos of Agathon and Sosikrates in the Kerameikos, Athens
  • Rear view of the monuments in the peribolos of Agathon and Sosikrates
  • Detail of the peribolos of Agathon and Sosikrates
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Korallion, detail
  • Plan of the Kerameikos, Athens
  • View toward Ancient Athens from the Sacred Way in the Kerameikos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Eupheros
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Lissos
  • Parthenon. North frieze. Block 6 (VI), water carriers
  • Funerary stele with male youth and dog
  • Drawing of the grave hs 202 as excavated in the Kerameikos, Athens
  • Objects excavated from grave hs 202
  • Red-figure chous depicting two boys with a duck
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Eupheros, detail
  • White-ground lekythos depicting a woman and a man at a tomb
  • Fragmentary oil flask (lekythos) depicting a visit to the grave
  • Attic red-figure skyphos with Electra and a companion at the tomb of Agamemnon
  • Attic red-figure skyphos with Orestes and Pylades
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Eupheros, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Eupheros, reconstruction drawing
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Lissos, reconstruction drawing
  • Pitcher (oinochoe) with two athletes and a dog
  • Red-figure kylix (Foundry Cup) with scene of men working on a bronze statue
  • White ground lekythos with scene of male youth and female mourner at a tomb
  • White ground oil flask (lekythos) depicting a grave monument for an athlete
  • Funerary stele painted with grave gifts and a dog
  • Panathenaic red-figure amphora: Charon
  • Panathenaic red-figure amphora: Charon
  • Funerary stele of a male youth
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Enporion of Lesbos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Aristion
  • Funerary monument inscribed with an epigram for Phrasikleia
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Eukoline, daughter of Antiphanes
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Chrysochoos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Eukoline, daughter of Antiphanes, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Mnesagora and Nikochares
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Mnesagora and Nikochares, detail
  • White-ground lekythos with scene of a woman and a youth at a tomb
  • White-ground lekythos with scene of a woman and a youth at a tomb
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Sosinos of Gortyn
  • Fragment of funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Athenokles
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Pausimache, daughter of Phanippe and Pausanias
  • Fragment of funerary stele inscribed for Herakleia, daughter of Simo
  • Fragments of funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Phan[...]
  • Fragment of a funerary stele with a figural scene and a loutrophoros
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Ampharete and her grandson
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Amyntas, son of Monounios
  • Plan of communal grave discovered at the Kerameikos Station
  • Red-figure chous with scene of children playing
  • White-ground lekythos with woman and man before a funerary monument
  • View of funerary plots along the Sacred Way in the Kerameikos, Athens
  • Funerary stele of a woman
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Polystrate
  • Curse figurines
  • Funerary stele with three women, known as the Farewell Stele
  • Funerary stele with three women, known as the Farewell Stele, detail
  • Funerary stele with three women, known as the Farewell Stele, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Hieron, son of Hierokles of Rhamnous and Lysippe
  • View of ancient road toward the acropolis of Rhamnous
  • Reconstruction drawing of the peribolos of the family of Hierokles, from Rhamnous
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Aristylla, daughter of Ariston and Rhodilla
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Aristylla, daughter of Ariston and Rhodilla, detail
  • Funerary stele with two figures
  • Funerary stele with two figures, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Chrysanthe
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Peisikrateia, daughter of Euphronios of Lamptrai, Euphronios, and Aristodikos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Krinylla, daughter of Stratios; Naukles, son of Naukrates of Lamptrai; and Naukrates, son of Naukles of Lamptrai
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Krinylla, daughter of Stratios; Naukles, son of Naukrates of Lamptrai; and Naukrates, son of Naukles of Lamptrai, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Anthippe
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Pythogenes of Eleusis
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Pythogenes of Eleusis, detail
  • Funerary stele with an epigram for Andron and his son
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for the sister of Smikythos
  • White-ground lekythos with scene of encounter at a gravesite
  • White-ground lekythos with two figures joining hands across a funerary monument
  • Funerary lekythos inscribed for Kephalion
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Euthykritos of Eitea
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Melite
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Philokydis
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Mynnia, daughter of Euteles and Euphrosyne, and Artemesias
  • Marble funerary lekythos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Littias, Choirine, and Lysistrate
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Plangon
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Phylonoe
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Phylonoe, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Demetrios and Theodote
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Diphilos
  • Funerary stele with an epigram for Theophile
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Paramythion and Pheidiades, with modern reconstruction
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Hieron, son of Hierokles of Rhamnous and Lysippe, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Hieron, son of Hierokles of Rhamnous and Lysippe, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Pheidylla, daughter of Aresios of Alopeke
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Pheidylla, daughter of Aresios of Alopeke, detail
  • Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Hegeso, daughter of Proxenos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Theomnestos, son of Theophrastos of Halai
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Theomnestos, son of Theophrastos of Halai, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Theomnestos, son of Theophrastos of Halai, detail
  • Marble grave stele of a young woman and servant, detail
  • Marble stele (grave marker) of Sostratos, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Philostratos, son of Philoxenos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Mnesarete, daughter of Sokrates
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Mnesarete, daughter of Sokrates, detail
  • Fragment of a Stela: Family Group with Seated Woman
  • Attic Grave Lekythos
  • Red-figure skyphos with Odysseus recognized by his nurse
  • Red-figure skyphos with Odysseus recognized by his nurse, reverse
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Ameinokleia, daughter of Andromenes
  • Funerary stele with two women
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Kalliphon
  • Funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Plangon
  • Funerary stele inscribed with epigram for Archestrate
  • Burial coffin
  • Lekythos, King Acrisius sending off Danae and Perseus
  • Funerary monument in the form of a box and basket
  • White-ground lekythos with a visit to the grave
  • White-ground lekythos with a visit to the grave, alternate view
  • Fragment of funerary stele with two women and a child
  • Fragment of funerary stele with two women
  • Fragments of funerary stele inscribed with an epigram for Phan[...], detail
  • Funerary lekythos with scene of visit to the grave
  • Funerary lekythos with scene of visit to the grave, detail
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Pheidylla, daughter of Aresios of Alopeke, detail
  • Fragment of a funerary stele inscribed for Philagros of Aggelai, and his daughter Hegilla
  • Weeping Siren
  • Marble stele (grave marker) of a woman
  • Attic grave relief of a woman with servant (so-called Siren relief)
  • Marble stele (grave marker) of Sostratos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Philto
  • Funerary stele with male youth and Siren
  • Fragment of a funerary stele inscribed for Aristodike, wife of Proxenides of Steiria, Proxenides, and Menippe
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Kleariste, daughter of Epainetos
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Kallisto, daughter of Philokrates of Konthyle
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Kallisto, daughter of Philokrates of Konthyle, detail
  • Grave stele of Silenis, daughter of Muiskos of Boeotia
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Mnesikleides
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Melantes and Menakles
  • Funerary stele with relief loutrophoros and Siren
  • Funerary stele inscribed for [...]strate, daughter of Theodoros
  • Peribolos of Dexileos, son of Lysanias, from Thorikos, with a modern copy of Dexileos’s stele, as reconstructed in the Kerameikos
  • Reconstruction drawing of the peribolos of Dexileos in the Kerameikos, Athens, with Siren statues shown flanking stele
  • Funerary stele inscribed for Dexileos, son of Lysanias of Thorikos
  • Statue of a lamenting Siren
  • Mnemosyne Atlas
  • View toward ancient Athens from the Street of the Tombs in the Kerameikos
  • Centaur and Lapith from the Parthenon, South Metope XXX
  • Demeter among the gods on the frieze of the Parthenon, East Block IV
  • Honorary decrees for the Samians, with relief of Athena and Hera
  • Portrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes
  • Hellenistic and Roman kioniskoi from the Kerameikos
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Description: Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
The development of this book would never have been possible without the generosity of numerous colleagues and friends. I am especially grateful to those who read and commented on the text at various stages. In its initial form, the project was guided by Andrew Stewart, who taught me, quite fundamentally, how to look at and think with Greek sculpture. Andy, who...
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Description: Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
This is a book about the relationship between death, grief, and sculpture as it was constructed by bereaved individuals in Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. It investigates a culturally specific artistic practice—a particular category of marble sculpture produced in a particular time and place—and how this practice emerged as a means to...
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Description: Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
Sometime around 430 BCE, in a small necropolis reserved for children just outside the walls of Athens, the parents of a boy named Eupheros buried their son.Details on the burials of Eupheros and Lissos presented here are taken from the excavation reports associated with their graves: see...
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Who is the youth on Eupheros’s stele (see fig. 10)?A few of the observations in this chapter concerning Eupheros’s burial are preliminarily essayed in Estrin 2018: 124–26. The figure is a fine example of late fifth-century relief sculpture,...
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In addition to the sculpture on its shaft, Eupheros’s stele is among the earliest funerary monuments to exhibit another innovative feature, one that has received significantly less scholarly attention. Eupheros’s name, inscribed in large letters above the head of the sculpted youth, is presented in the nominative...
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Through names and images, funerary monuments illuminate the gravesite with flickers of recognition, but do not restore the dead to life. Remembrances always circle back to corpses, and objects that might lead to reunion on the tragic stage never fulfill their promise at the gravesite. In the end, the dead, no matter how proximate they seem, can never be fully...
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When Eupheros was buried, there were likely not many graves in the immediate vicinity marked with stelai as elaborate as his (fig. 54; see also the map at fig. 8). But his monument was soon joined by others—not just that of Lissos, but stelai decorated with relief sculpture. Just across the path from Eupheros and Lissos, in another family enclosure, stood a stele sculpted with a woman gazing into a mirror (fig. 55), an earlier version of the same imagery found on Pausimache’s monument (see fig....
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On a monumental funerary stele discovered in 1882 near Athens’s Omonia Square, two women are bound together in a tender embrace (fig....
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On a massive funerary monument erected in the late fourth century at Rhamnous, in northern Attica, two individuals seem to stare at each other across a void of empty space (fig. 61).National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 833; Clairmont 1993: cat. 2.480....
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Since its discovery in 1965, one of the most staggering achievements of fourth-century sculpture has sat quietly in an archaeological storeroom set within a park said to be the site of...
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A fragment of a funerary monument retains the carved heads of a man and a woman, identified through inscriptions as Philagros and his daughter Hegilla (fig. 127).Antikensammlung, Berlin, Sk 741; Blümel 1966: 42–43, no. 41; Clairmont...
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What might art history look like if it accounted for an object’s form not in terms of making—in terms of its style or iconography, for instance—but in terms of emotion? Over a century ago, such a way of...
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