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Milette Gaifman

The Art of Libation in Classical Athens

~This book could not have been written without many jovial libations and inspiring conversations with friends and colleagues. Jas’ Elsner helped me conceptualize the project in its initial stages and kindly read through drafts of the entire manuscript. I am forever grateful for my close collaborations with Verity Platt and thankful for my ongoing dialogues with...

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Milette Gaifman

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00126.002

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Acknowledgments

This book could not have been written without many jovial libations and inspiring conversations with friends and colleagues. Jas’ Elsner helped me conceptualize the project in its initial stages and kindly read through drafts of the entire manuscript. I am forever grateful for my close collaborations with Verity Platt and thankful for my ongoing dialogues with François Lissarrague, Richard Neer, and Mike Squire. The meetings of the New Antiquity group fostered invaluable ideas. I owe much to the participants on those occasions: Annetta Alexandridis, Ben Anderson, Francesco de Angelis, Nathan Arrington, Ruth Bielfeldt, Patch Crowley, Guy Hedreen, Gloria Pinney, and Jennifer Trimble. I have also benefited from input I received during my time in Paris in spring 2015. In particular, my thanks go to Florence Gherchanoc for her warm hospitality, and to Pierre Ellinger, Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Stella Georgoudi, and Valérie Huet.

I cannot imagine writing this book anywhere but Yale. I have enjoyed the friendship of my colleague in ancient art, Diana E. E. Kleiner, and I saw Greek art in a new light when I was looking at vases with Susan Matheson and Carolyn Laferrière at the Yale University Art Gallery. Meals and drinks offered the perfect moments to share thoughts and learn from wise colleagues in my two departments. In Classics: Egbert Bakker, Victor Bers, Kirk Freudenburg, Emily Greenwood, Verity Harte, Brad Inwood, Andrew Johnston, Chris Kraus, Pauline LeVen, Noel Lenski, Joe Manning, John Matthews, and Irene Peirano-Garrison; and in History of Art: Carol Armstrong, Tim Barringer, Craig Buckley, Ned Cooke, Erica James, Jackie Jung, Kobena Mercer, Mary Miller, Rob Nelson, Jennifer Raab, Kishwar Rizvi, Nicola Suthor, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan; as well as colleagues who are no longer at Yale: David Joselit, Alex Nemerov, and Christopher Wood. And music lovers in New Haven—Judith Colton, Brian and Adrienne Kane, Gundula Kreuzer, Wayne Meeks, Ian Quinn, and Jessica Sack—showed me that art and libations are inextricable from music and close companionship.

Yale University made the production of the book possible, especially the generosity of the Departments of Classics and History of Art, and the Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale.

The book was transformed by the help of many. Rona Gordon Johnston improved my text dramatically, while Caitlin Woolsey did a superb job of handling images. My thankfulness to my editor at Yale University Press, Katherine Boller, and to the wonderful editorial team: Heidi Downey, Jane Friedman, Mary Mayer, and Raychel Rapazza.

Both in Connecticut and elsewhere, numerous individuals and institutions helped along the way with research and photography: in New Haven, Lisa Brody, Megan Doyon, and Jessica Smolinski, at Yale University Art Gallery, and Nicole Chardiet at the Department of History of Art; in New York, Robbi Siegel at Art Resource and Julie Zeftel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in the UK, Christopher Sutherns at the British Museum and Ilaria Perzia and Amy Taylor at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; in Paris, Sophie Padel-Imbaud at the Musée du Louvre; in Germany, Ursula Kästner at the Antikensammlung Berlin, Antje Marthe Fischer at the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, and Christiane Backhaus, Thomas Fuchs, and Martina Seestern-Pauly at the Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha; in Ferrara, Mario Cesarano and Caterina Cornelio at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Ferrara; and in Athens, Evangelia Bouka and Despina Ignatiadou at the National Archaeological Museum.

My parents, Hana and Haim Gaifman, were always at my call, as well as my sister Morit Gaifman and brother-in-law Kevin Gordon, parents of little Omri, who beat this book into the world. I am grateful to the Lewis family for warmly welcoming me into their lives: Howard and Martha, Emily and Annabelle, and Walter and Amelia. And above all, my gratitude goes to David B. Lewis, with whom I hope to share many more libations.

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