José Francisco de Moura

Original title: Vínculos entre divindade e poder secular nos vasos de figuras negras da Lacônia no século VI a.C.

Published in Expressing the Divine: Language, Art and Mysticism

Keywords: Gods, Kings, Politic, Sparta, power.

This article wants to examine the divine images on Laconian black-figure vases with regard to the iconography in other types of Laconian materials, thus hoping to understand their politico-social function in the context of the Spartan society of the 6th century b.C.