This volume makes a welcome contribution to the study of Classical Athenian white lekythoi. These oil vessels, painted in polychrome on a white background, are known from more than two thousand examples produced from about 470 to 400 BCE. Used mainly as grave offerings in Athens and its territory, their function and funerary imagery link white lekythoi closely with Classical Athenian burial practice. In Picturing Death in Classical Athens, John Oakley’s concentration on the vases’ rich figural depictions fills a gap in the scholarship. Since white lekythoi first began to receive significant attention in the second half of the nineteenth century, much of the focus has been on categorization based on style, artist, or nonfigural decoration (e.g., A. Fairbanks, Athenian Lekythoi, 2 vols., New York: Macmillan Company, 1907 and 1914; and D.C. Kurtz, Athenian White Lekythoi: Patterns and Painters, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975). In recent decades, however, publications have turned their attention more fully to the vessels’ imagery. Building on previous work concerning individual artists and iconographic themes, Oakley offers a more comprehensive overview of all the iconographic variants found on white lekythoi. He organizes his material by the type of image, presenting several detailed examples in each category. In...