red-figure homoerotic images

[meridannight]

This has been educational, thank you.

In that case I'll add one fascinating detail. You notice that abstract pattern of lines bordering some thing or another in Greek art (i.e. meandros or meander)? It actually might not be so abstract at all.

This image here (drawing of the inside of the Peithinos cup, depicting Achilles' mother Thetis and Peleus) shows that pattern represented as an interlocking of hands:



I think that's beautiful. I'll never look at that pattern with the same abstract feeling ever again.