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For Further Reading📚
Richard T. Neer, Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E. (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002)
Gloria Ferrari, "Eye-Cup," Revue archéologique, no. 1 (1986), pp. 5-20
Sheramy D. Bundrick, "Athenian Eye Cups in Context," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 119, no. 3 (July 2015), pp. 295-341
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
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0:00 Intro
1:20 Making the Greek Eye Cup Replica
4:25 The Athenian Symposion
7:24 Why the Eyes? Theory 1: Warding Off Evil
8:09 Why the Eyes? Theory 2: The Mask
9:07 Why the Eyes? Theory 3: Grave Goods
9:45 Details I Love in Eye Cups
11:05 Conclusion