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Sex And Pottery: Erotic Images On Athenian Cups, 600-300 B.C., Michael Lee Banner
Sex And Pottery: Erotic Images On Athenian Cups, 600-300 B.C., Michael Lee Banner
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Many pages have been written concerning erotic images on Greek vases but few studies have focused on the frequency of erotic images. This is an important concept in determining the significance of the erotic images. Various Athenian cups from the online holdings of the Beazley Archive were investigated, using simple tabulations and Chi-square analysis, for erotic images. Out of 7901 cups only 130 had erotic images. As cups with erotic images represented only a small portion of the sample it was likely that they only appealed to the tastes of a small sub-set of the Athenian population. The context of …