O autor pergunta, a partir da iconografia da Guerra de Tróia, pelo lugar da guerra no imaginário ateniense durante os séculos VI-V a.C.. O corpus da pesquisa é constituído por 248 vasos áticos referentes a nove cenas: 1) Armamento de Aquiles; 2) Partida de Aquiles; os duelos entre 3) Páris e Menelau, 4) Enéias e Diomedes, 5) Ájax e Heitor, 6) Aquiles e Heitor, 7) Aquiles e Mêmnon; os retornos de guerreiros mortos em batalha: 8) Sono e Morte carregando o corpo de Sarpédon e 9) Ájax carregando o corpo de Aquiles. Os recortes espacial, Atenas, e cronológico, séculos VI-V a.C., foram feitos devido à escolha deliberada dos vasos áticos e ao surgimento e desaparecimento do tema nesse período. Partindo dos pressupostos de que há uma relação entre imagens e sociedade e de que as imagens são construções do imaginário social, que permitem uma aproximação às representações coletivas, o autor propõe ser a Guerra de Tróia um elemento constitutivo do imaginário ateniense nos séculos VI-V a.C. e remeter sua iconografia às representações dos atenienses sobre a atividade guerreira em seu próprio tempo. As imagens pintadas da Guerra de Tróia, antes de serem ilustrações de um evento do passado, são manifestações da imagem que a cidade de Atenas faz de si mesma em relação à guerra. Presente na memória coletiva dos atenienses, a Guerra de Tróia é um acontecimento, no qual a cidade fundamenta seus valores, sua sociedade e os respectivos papéis de seus cidadãos. Em suma, a guerra, antes de ser uma atividade restrita aos guerreiros, envolve toda a cidade, isto é, os não guerreiros, entre os quais, a mulher e o homem idoso, pais do guerreiro, ocupam um lugar preponderante. / From the iconography of the Trojan War, the author asks about the place of the war in the Athenian imaginary in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The corpus of the research is composed of 248 attic vases about nine scenes: 1) The arming of Achilles; 2) The departure of Achilles; the duels: 3) Paris fighting Menelaos, 4) Aeneas fighting Diomedes, 5) Ajax fighting Hector, 6) Achilles fighting Hector, 7) Achilles fighting Memnon; the returns of the dead warriors in battle: 8) Sleep and Death carrying the body of Sarpedon, and 9) Ajax carrying the body of Achilles. The choice of space, Athens, and chronological period, 6th and 5th centuries B.C., was based on a deliberate option for the attic vases and on the appearance and disappearance of the theme in this period. Based on the assumptions that there is a relationship between images and society and that images are constructs of the social imaginary, allowing an approximation to collective representations, the author proposes that the Trojan War is a constituent element of the Athenian imaginary in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. and that its iconography refers to the representations of Athenians on the war activity in their own time. The Trojan Wars painted pictures, rather than being illustrations of an event from the past, are manifestations of the image that the city of Athens makes about itself, concerning the war. The Trojan War is an event in the collective memory of the Athenians, upon which the city establishes its values, its society and the respective roles of its citizens. In short, that war, rather than being an activity restricted to warriors, concerns the whole city, namely, the non-warriors, among them, the woman and the old man, the warriors parents, who hold an important place.

O autor pergunta, a partir da iconografia da Guerra de Tróia, pelo lugar da guerra no imaginário ateniense durante os séculos VI-V a.C.. O corpus da pesquisa é constituído por 248 vasos áticos referentes a nove cenas: 1) Armamento de Aquiles; 2) Partida de Aquiles; os duelos entre 3) Páris e Menelau, 4) Enéias e Diomedes, 5) Ájax e Heitor, 6) Aquiles e Heitor, 7) Aquiles e Mêmnon; os retornos de guerreiros mortos em batalha: 8) Sono e Morte carregando o corpo de Sarpédon e 9) Ájax carregando o corpo de Aquiles. Os recortes espacial, Atenas, e cronológico, séculos VI-V a.C., foram feitos devido à escolha deliberada dos vasos áticos e ao surgimento e desaparecimento do tema nesse período. Partindo dos pressupostos de que há uma relação entre imagens e sociedade e de que as imagens são construções do imaginário social, que permitem uma aproximação às representações coletivas, o autor propõe ser a Guerra de Tróia um elemento constitutivo do imaginário ateniense nos séculos VI-V a.C. e remeter sua iconografia às representações dos atenienses sobre a atividade guerreira em seu próprio tempo. As imagens pintadas da Guerra de Tróia, antes de serem ilustrações de um evento do passado, são manifestações da imagem que a cidade de Atenas faz de si mesma em relação à guerra. Presente na memória coletiva dos atenienses, a Guerra de Tróia é um acontecimento, no qual a cidade fundamenta seus valores, sua sociedade e os respectivos papéis de seus cidadãos. Em suma, a guerra, antes de ser uma atividade restrita aos guerreiros, envolve toda a cidade, isto é, os não guerreiros, entre os quais, a mulher e o homem idoso, pais do guerreiro, ocupam um lugar preponderante. / From the iconography of the Trojan War, the author asks about the place of the war in the Athenian imaginary in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The corpus of the research is composed of 248 attic vases about nine scenes: 1) The arming of Achilles; 2) The departure of Achilles; the duels: 3) Paris fighting Menelaos, 4) Aeneas fighting Diomedes, 5) Ajax fighting Hector, 6) Achilles fighting Hector, 7) Achilles fighting Memnon; the returns of the dead warriors in battle: 8) Sleep and Death carrying the body of Sarpedon, and 9) Ajax carrying the body of Achilles. The choice of space, Athens, and chronological period, 6th and 5th centuries B.C., was based on a deliberate option for the attic vases and on the appearance and disappearance of the theme in this period. Based on the assumptions that there is a relationship between images and society and that images are constructs of the social imaginary, allowing an approximation to collective representations, the author proposes that the Trojan War is a constituent element of the Athenian imaginary in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. and that its iconography refers to the representations of Athenians on the war activity in their own time. The Trojan Wars painted pictures, rather than being illustrations of an event from the past, are manifestations of the image that the city of Athens makes about itself, concerning the war. The Trojan War is an event in the collective memory of the Athenians, upon which the city establishes its values, its society and the respective roles of its citizens. In short, that war, rather than being an activity restricted to warriors, concerns the whole city, namely, the non-warriors, among them, the woman and the old man, the warriors parents, who hold an important place.

M.A. / During the second half of the fifth-century B.C. there was a sudden proliferation of Attic vases depicting adornment scenes. These scenes showed groups of women making themselves desirable and for the first time women were eroticised within the context of marriage. Some scholars have argued that this sudden abundance reflected a change in the Attic attitude towards women, reflecting their increased social standing. These scholars proposed various hypotheses. It is conjectured that Perikles' Citizenship Law of 451/450 increased the social standing of Athenian daughters. The Peloponnesian War that raged from 431 to 404 BCE might also have forced women to take on more public responsibilities; to fill the gaps left by the military men's absence. This would explain why private activities of women became the subject matter of vase paintings at that time. According to this viewpoint women became the new customers of the potters. There are even scholars who maintain that these scenes contain hints of sexual liaisons between women. A competing hypothesis is that these scenes were used to impose a patriarchal ideal of femininity onto girls preparing themselves for marriage. Both these approaches imply that women were the primary viewers of these scenes. The aim of this study is to evaluate these hypotheses and to explore whether there may be other explanations. In order to investigate these issues a visual semiotic analysis was performed of thirteen painted vases representative of a variety of painters and vase shapes. This analysis was done in two parts: a structural analysis and a pragmatic analysis. The structural analysis consisted of a syntactic and semantic analysis, and helped to identify the pertinent signs and what they refer to. Artistic principles and the theory of Gestalt played an important role in identifying key signs. The pragmatic analysis delved deeper and was used to establish what message Athenian men and women might have read into these painted vases. This brought to light the master narrative prescribed by the patriarchy as well as women's acceptance thereof and how women used it to condition their daughters. A new hypothesis is proposed to explain the increase in this type of subject matter on painted vases. It is concluded that the buyers of the vases were mostly men but that the consumers of these artistic scenes were both male and female. It is also probable that after the Peloponnesian War these vases depicted a return to basic patriarchal values that may have degenerated during the war. It was also found that Perikles' Citizenship Law would have contributed more to the social standing of the male guardian, than to that of a girl of marriageable age. The eroticisation of women within the confines of marriage would thus have propagated the message of procreation within the patriarchal family structure, rather than referring to erotic encounters between women. These scenes, instead of showing the increased social standing of women, reflect a reinforcement of patriarchal values.