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The Greek Youthening: Assessing The Iconographic Changes Within Courtship During The Late Archaic Period, Jared Alan Johnson
The Greek Youthening: Assessing The Iconographic Changes Within Courtship During The Late Archaic Period, Jared Alan Johnson
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During the late sixth century and early fifth century B.C., Athenian vase painters started experimenting with a new medium (i.e. red figure). Black figure was still the predominant medium by the early fifth century B.C., and its pederastic scenes on some of the vases belonged to a coherently consistent presentation or a conventional set of images. However, the conventional pederastic motifs of black figure, such as the differentiation in height between figures, the variation among lovers (e.g. bearded erastes and unbearded eromenos), and the appearance of courtship gifts all started to disappear in red figure throughout the fifth century B.C. …