Xenophantos’ Lekythos and the Greek perception of Persian hunting pratices
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2023.194561Keywords:
Xenophantos, Otherness, Greek art, Persian art, LekythosAbstract
The purpose of this article is to investigate the iconography of the so-called Xenophantos’ Lekythos, with particular attention to the way in which the hunt among the Achaemenids is depicted in the artifact. It will be argued that Xenophantos demonstrates knowledge about Persian hunting practices, while, as an Athenian artist, creates a discourse of otherness about such practices. Finally, the lekythos will be compared with several Persian sarcophagi in order to demonstrate how the materiality of the artifact has an umbilical relationship with its iconography.
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