Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. This book investigates both epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions, and their broader, iconographic and sociocultural, significance.

Preface: Art and Epigraphy: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions - Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Inscriptions and Visual Representations on Attic Vases: Questions, Methodologies, Technical and Contextual Approaches Chapter One: Soundscapes (and Two Speaking Lyres) - Dimitrios Yatromanolakis Chapter Two: Hipparchos kalos - Thomas Mannack Chapter Three: ‘So-and-so καλή’: A Reexamination - Guy Hedreen Chapter Four: Inscribed Mythical Names on Attic Vase-Paintings from 570 to 530 BC: A Contextual Approach - Burkhard Fehr Chapter Five: Meaningless, But Not Useless!: Nonsense Inscriptions on Athenian Little-Master Cups - Pieter Heesen Inscriptions on Apulian Vases Chapter Six: Inscriptions on Apulian Red-Figure Vases: A Survey - John H. Oakley Chapter Seven: Some Observations on Apulian Vase-Inscriptions with a Particular Focus on the Darius Painter - Thomas H. Carpenter Visual Identities: Attic and Corinthian Vase-Inscriptions and the Significance of their Placement Chapter Eight: Instant Messaging: Dance, Text, and Visual Communication on Archaic Corinthian and Athenian Vases - Tyler Jo Smith Chapter Nine: Tracing Letters on the Eurymedon Vase: On the Importance of Placement of Vase-Inscriptions - Georg Simon Gerleigner Chapter Ten: Sophilos, Inscriptions, and the Funeral Games for Patroklos - Mary Moore Index