Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781472488763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 338 str.

Sadie Pickup; Sally Waite

Opis

This edited volume groups research on the significance of ancient feet and footwear, much of which was presented, discussed and reviewed at the conference: Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Antiquity, held at Newcastle University and the Great North Museum from June 29th-July 1st, 2015.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction Sadie Pickup and Sally Waite – Surveying Shoes, Slippers and Sandals; Part 1: Envisaging Footwear; 1) Sally Waite and Emma Gooch – Sandals on the Wall: The Symbolism of Footwear on Athenian Painted Pottery; 2) Valérie Toillon – At the Symposium: Why Take Off Our Boots? The Significance of Boots Placed Underneath the Kline on Attic Red-Figure Vases (c. 480-450 BC); 3) Yael Young – Donning Footwear: The Invention and Diffusion of an Iconographic Motif in Archaic Athens; 4) Christiaan Caspers – Pantāi Krēpides: Shoe-Talk from Homer to Herodas; Part 2: Following Footprints; 5) Sebastiano Molinelli – Simon the Athenian: Archaeological, Sociological and Philosophical Remarks on a Philosopher Shoemaker; 6) Susanna Phillippo – Stepping onto the Stage: Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Tragic Footwear; 7) Andrew Parkin – A Colossal Porphyry Foot; Part 3: One from a Pair; 8) Amy Smith – The Left Foot Aryballos Wearing a Network Sandal; 9) Sue Blundell – One Shoe Off and One Shoe On: The Motif of Monosandalism in Classical Greece; 10) Sadie Pickup – A Slip and a Slap: Aphrodite and her Sandals; 11) Charlotte Chrétien – Achilles’ Discovery on Skyros: Status and Representation of the ‘Monosandalos’ in Roman Art; Part 4: Between Representation and Reality; 12) Annika Backe-Dahmen – Sandals for the Living, Sandals for the Dead: Roman and Their Footwear; 13) Eva Christof – The Footwear of the Antonine Monument from Ephesus; 14) Alex Croom – A ‘Shoe’ Brooch from Roman Fort at South Shields; 15) Elizabeth M. Greene –Metal Fittings on the Vindolanda Shoes: Footwear and Evidence for Podiatric Knowledge in the Roman World; Glossary; Index