Greek Pottery: An IntroductionThis work deals with classical Greek pottery from a number of points of view - technique, period, place of production, function, shape, decoration and distribution. The book places an emphasis on the every-day uses of Greek pottery - as containers for water, wine, fish, honey and olives, for example - and does not treat it as art. The author explains the importance of clay as a fundamental natural resource in the lives of the ancient Greeks, stressing its versatility as a container in varying conditions of heat and cold. The book aims to offer a broad picture of Greek pottery that gives an idea of its variety and importance without dwelling too heavily upon the high-quality figured vases. |
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ABSA Amasis Painter Amyx Ancient Andokides Painter Arafat and Morgan Archaic areas aryballos Athenian Agora Athens Attic Attic black-figure Attic pottery Attic red-figure Attic vase-painting Attic vases B.C. Ht Beazley Berlin black-figure Boardman Boardman 1984a Boeotia Boeotian Bothmer bowl Brijder Brommer Carpenter 1989 carry centres chronology clay colour Cook Corinth Corinthian dating decoration e.g. Fig evidence excavated Exekias fifth century fifth century B.C. figures firing floral fourth century Geometric Gill gloss graffiti Greece Greek pottery Greek Vases Hadra Herakles Hesperia Hirmer Hoffmann horizontal handles hydria incised inscription Johnston Kerameikos kiln Kleitias krater Kurtz kylix Laconian late fifth lekythoi London Mainz metal Museum myth names Naukratis Nikosthenes obols Oxford painted Panathenaic prize amphorae Parthenon Pausanias Persian pithoi pots Princeton produced Ridgway Robertson 1975 scenes sculpture shapes Shefton sixth skyphos Snodgrass sometimes south Italy stamping technique temple transport amphorae Trendall Vickers wares white-ground workshops