Laconianvasepainting is a regional style of Greek vasepainting, produced in Laconia, the region of Sparta, primarily in the 6th century BC. The first...
2 vols, 1972. M. Pipili Laconian Iconography of the Sixth Century BC, 1987 K. Kilinski II Boiotian Black Figure VasePainting of the Archaic Period, 1990...
Apulian vasepainting Lucanian vasepainting Paestan vasepainting Campanian vasepainting South Italian VasePainting by A.D. Trendall Red Figure Vases of...
The Rider Painter was a Laconianvase painter active between 560 and 530 BC. He is considered one of the five great vase painters of Sparta. His name is...
Thessalian vasepainting was a regional style of Greek vasepainting, prevalent in Thessaly. The Geometric vasepainting of Thessaly was rather lifeless...
The Arkesilas Cup is a kylix by the Laconianvase painter known as the Arkesilas Painter, whose name vase it is. It depicts, and is thus named after,...
single lion-headed Cerberus, in Attic vasepainting Cerberus usually has two dog heads. In other art, as in the Laconian cup, Cerberus is usually three-headed...
The Arkesilas Painter was a Laconianvase painter active around 560 BC. He is considered one of the five great vase painters of Sparta. His conventional...
Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey, Menelaus was also popular in Greek vasepainting and Greek tragedy, the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than...
The Naucratis Painter was a Laconianvase painter of the mid-sixth century BC. Naucratis was a Greek trading post (emporion) in Egypt. Two fragments of...
to the moon (Selene; Σελήνη). But two early dedications to Helen in the Laconian dialect of ancient Greek spell her name with an initial digamma (Ϝ, probably...
giant perched above the lovers turns to wrench up a rock. The blinding, Laconian black-figure cup, 565–560 BC Flemish Jacob Jordaens' depiction of Odysseus...
hurled themselves off the Acropolis, dying instantly, but an Attic vasepainting shows them being chased by the serpent off the edge of the cliff instead...
tradition. Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings—the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her—to...
alternate name for Hippodamia (wife of Pirithous) occurring in a red-figure vasepainting. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21 Scholia on Homer, Iliad 6.192 Scholia...
Oliver (1994), Comic Angels: And Other Approaches to Greek Drama Through Vase-Paintings, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-815000-8 Wright, Matthew. (2007)...
not come until around 675 BC, where it is depicted on a Corinthian vasepainting. The phalanx tactics which were used by hoplites in the Classical period...
Chimera from underneath, while Pegasus strikes the monster with his hooves. Laconian Black Figure Kylix attributed to Boreads Painter, 570–565 B.C. J. Paul...
writing systems was introduced in this period, with the acquisition of the Laconian-Tarantine alphabet and its adaptation to the Messapic language. The second...
to Leda of the egg containing Helen. They can be recognized in some vase-paintings by the skull-cap they wear, the pilos (πῖλος), which was already explained...
Troilus in other contexts are unusual. One such exception, a red-figure vasepainting from Apulia c.340BC, shows Troilus as a child with Priam. In the ambush...
also mentions a hero shrine at Kolonos in Attica. Adrastus appears in vasepainting as early as the late 6th century BC. A Chalcidian calyx krater (c. 530...
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