Sloan Publishing - Chapter 11

Website 11.1: Scenes from the Lives of Men
These can be found by entering identifying labels in the Search Box in the Perseus website:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

When a boy reached the age of three, he was introduced to the men's world of wine at the Chous festival, the second day of the festival Anthesteria, the Festival of Flowers, held in February when the new wine was ready; he was given a small pitcher of wine (chous) and crowned with flowers:
     Yale 1913.142, baby crawling, miniature chous
     Philadelphia 75-10-1 Chous, dog and grapes

Homosexual courtship of boys:
     Boston 10.193, homosexual courtship
     Hamburg 1900.164: Cup, drawing of the tondo, showing a boy seated
       with lyre, and a youth
     WurtzburgL482: Interior: Youth and man holding a hare (a favorite gift
       for boys)
     Malibu 86.AE290 Youth with lyre and teacher; school scenes (men
       with hares)

An important aspect of a boy's life was athletic practice and participation:
     Toledo 1956.58 Side B: trainer with athletes
     Boston 01.8019, wrestlers and trainer
     Boston 01.8020 discus thrower and jumper
     Boston 10.178 Athletic victor, youth with wreath to crown victor
     Tampa 86.24, Panathenaic, two riders

The young men entered the world of male social connections and politics through the symposium:
     Malibu 86.AE.682 Symposium (males)
     Louvre G 135: Tondo: Symposium, man reclining, woman playing
       flute
     Brussels R 351 Symposium, love-making (man, woman)

Serious pursuits were a part of life as well:
     Louvre G 402, youth sacrificing

And when the youth reached the age of adulthood (18), he was enrolled as an ephebe, and underwent a year of military training, followed by a yeare of light-armed military duty on the frontiers, after which he became a full-fledged hoplite soldier and citizen:
     Palermo 25564, man arming for war, woman

Website 11.2:
Vases illustrating the lives of citizen women, from Perseus website: enter the identifying label in the Search Box to view the scenes:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Life for a citizen girl centered on her marriage:
St. Petersburg St. 1791, preparations for a wedding
London E 774 Wedding preparations, working wool

After marriage centered on the bride's new household; working of wool an important task, and the bearing of a child an eagerly anticipated event:
     Yale 1913. 146 Woman in domestic interior
     Louvre CA 587, Women, spindle, hand loom
     Boston 13.189 Seated woman working wool
     London E 219 Mother, maid and baby
     London E 190 Seated woman reading, perhaps checking
       houehold accounts

Family obligations sometimes took the woman outside her home:
RISD 06.050 Woman bringing funeral offerings

Website 11.3:
Other vase paintings illustrating slave occupations from the Perseus collection; enter the identifying label liln the Search Box:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Female slaves:
     Toledo 1961.23: slave women fetching water from a fountain
     Munich 2421: two hetairai partying, music lesson (lyre)
     St. Petersburg 644: four hetairai partying

Male metics and slaves:
     London E 23: carpenter
     Louvre C 10918: cooking was assigned to men (but women
       ground the grain)
     London B 507: foundry scene, two men at a forge
     Harvard 1960.321 and 1958.19: potters' workshop
     Berlin F 2542: potter at work
     Boston 01.8073: cup painter in a potter's shop (fragment)

The male worlds or privilege and service intersected:
Baltimore, Hopkins AIA B4: youth with moneybag, perhaps
contemplating the purchase of a vase