... CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY Volume 37/No. 1/April 2018 Bianchi Bandinelli.8 Given its apparently unabashed realism and lack of political and social pretension, it is tempting to construe the frieze as a straightforward narrative of the baking process, which serves the primarily didactic function of informing...

... with a thematically organized section (the ‘proemial opening’), which surveys the subject's life as a whole, not just their youth, and which is marked off with varying degrees of distinctness from the narrative that follows. Crucially, proemial openings do not narrate and the logic of their structure...