Further reading on fish plates

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The best starting point in any research on fish plates is the seminal works by Ian McPhee and

Arthur Dale Trendall:

McPhee, I. and Trendall, A.D., 1987. Greek Red-figured Fish Plates. Vereinigung der Freunde

antiker Kunst.

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and its follow up:

McPhee, I. and Trendall, A.D., 1990. Addenda to Greek red-figured fish-plates. Antike Kunst, 33(H.

1), pp.31-51.

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Post 1990 publications of newly discovered fish plates are scattered in many books and

periodicals, see indicatively this:

Ugarković, M., 2013. The Red-figure fish plate from Issa. Vjesnik za Arheologiju i Povijest

Dalmatinsku, 106, 75-98.

(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267332938_The_red-figure_fish_plate_from_Issa)

 

For the fish plates depicting the myth of the Abduction of Europe see

Barringer, J.M., 1991. Europa and the Nereids: Wedding or Funeral?. American Journal of

Archaeology 95 (4), 657-667.

 

The fully developed discussion of what is presented in this post is to be found here:

Mylona, D., 2008. Fish-eating in Greece from the Fifth Century B.C. to the Seventh Century A.D.

(BAR International Series 1754.) Oxford: Archaeopress.

 

Much research has been dedicated to fish gastronomy and its social and ideological parameters

in Classical Athens and South Italy. Some of the most comprehensive works are these:

Dalby, A., 1997. Siren Feasts. Routledge.

 

Wilkins, John. The Boastful Chef: the discourse of food in ancient Greek comedy. Oxford

University Press on Demand, 2000.

 

Davidson, J.N., 1998. Courtesans & Fishcakes: the consuming passions of classical Athens.

Macmillan.