A painful matter: the sandal as a hitting implement in Athenian iconography

Abstract The article examines a series of images on Athenian ceramic vases in which sandals are depicted as a hitting implement. This iconographic motif appears mainly in two contexts: educational scenes, where an adult hits a subordinate, and erotic scenes, where the hitting action is almost always...

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Main Author: Yael Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2020-08-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00558-z