Is Greek imagery or Greece as depicted by illustrators? During the period between the 6th and 5th centuries BC, Athenian potters flooded the Mediterranean world with large quantities of vessels decorated with various images. These images have been used and continue to be used to illustrate ancient history or daily life, often at the expense of their uniqueness as a means of mass communication. Taking into account the data from social and religious anthropology as well as semiotics, the authors of the book aimed to utilize the wealth of these unique sources, highlighting their remarkable diversity and deep complexity. The book invites the reader on a journey through the illustration of the vessels. Sometimes emphasizing the logic of the pictorial system and the artificial nature of the imagery, other times presenting major cultural themes (hunting, war, women, love, festivals), all chapters lead to the most unsettling aspects of that world, including Dionysus, the god of sacred wine, magical masks, and animal transformations. Flipping through its pages, surprises multiply: many images challenge with their brutality, violence, and strange character. Gradually or suddenly, we move from the "classic" perception of human relationships to scenes reflecting the crises and upheavals of those societies. Artisans process elements of everyday realities and create a heterogeneous testimony of the environment in which they worked, shaping a world often depicted as fantastical—a world that embodies the "fantasy" of the community: where visions, contradictions, obsessions, and fears of a vibrant society unfold. Paradoxically, through this exotic distance, the ancient Greeks become so accessible to us. The work is the result of close collaboration between the Institute of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Lausanne and the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris (the current Louis Gernet Center at the Research Unit ANHIMA – Anthropology and History of the Ancient World at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences). Texts by Claude Bérard, Christiane Bron, Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux, François Lissarrague, Alain Schnapp, and Jean-Louis Durand, with a preface by J. P. Vernant.