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Thessalian vase painting was a regional style of Greek vase painting, prevalent in Thessaly.

The Geometric vase painting of Thessaly was rather lifeless and provincial, especially compared to the dominant production centres such as Attica. Often, Attic styles were simply imitated.

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Thessalian vase painting

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Thessalian vase painting was a regional style of Greek vase painting, prevalent in Thessaly. The Geometric vase painting of Thessaly was rather lifeless...

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which begins Ancient Greek pottery proper.[citation needed] The rise of vase painting saw increasing decoration. Geometric art in Greek pottery was contiguous...

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Petasos

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petasos (Greek: πέτασος) or petasus (Latin) is a broad brimmed hat of Thessalian origin worn by ancient Greeks, Thracians and Etruscans, often in combination...

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Shield of Heracles

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Attic vase-painting between ca 565 and ca 480 BCE. A calyx-krater by Euphronios depicting the minor episode of Heracles' combat with the Thessalian brigand...

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Aegean civilization

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Nauplia in the Argolid, near Thebes and Delphi, and not far from the Thessalian Larissa. During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated...

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Clothing in ancient Greece

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was the proverbial phrase Θετταλικαὶ πτέρυγες, meaning Thessalian wings, because the Thessalian cloaks had a small flap in each side which resemble wings...

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Ancient Greek sculpture

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bronze work is not confined to standing men and horses, however, as vase paintings of the time also depict imagery of stags, birds, beetles, hares, griffins...

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Simonides of Ceos

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Scopadae and Aleuadae. These were two of the most powerful families in the Thessalian feudal aristocracy yet they seemed notable to later Greeks such as Theocritus...

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Castor and Pollux

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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...

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Hecate

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and a lance. Her fight with the Giant appears in a number of ancient vase paintings and other artwork. Hecate is the primary feminine figure in the Chaldean...

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Selene

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Special Technique in Black- and Red-figure Vase-painting", in The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Getty Publications, 2006, ISBN 978-0-89236-942-3...

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Minoan civilization

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more variety existed. However, in contrast to later Ancient Greek vase painting, paintings of human figures are extremely rare, and those of land mammals...

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Golden Fleece

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the fleece hangs from an apple tree. Jason's helper in the Athenian vase-paintings is not Medea— who had a history in Athens as the opponent of Theseus—but...

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Achilles

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general invulnerability or his famous weakness at the heel. In the later vase paintings presenting the death of Achilles, the arrow (or in many cases, arrows)...

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Artemis

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sometimes a veil covered her head. Her darker side is revealed in some vase paintings, where she is shown as the death-bringing goddess whose arrows fell...

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Parthenon

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chryselephantine sculpture is now lost and known only from copies, vase painting, gems, literary descriptions, and coins. A major fire broke out in the...

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Hades

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Asclepius who was originally a demigod, son of Apollo and Coronis, a Thessalian princess. During his lifetime, he became a famous and talented physician...

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Ancient Macedonians

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lexical affinity with other Greek dialects, especially Northwest Greek and Thessalian. Most of the words are Greek, although some of these could represent loans...

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Lelantine War

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and political importance. On the Mediterranean markets, Corinthian vase painting had taken over the dominant role previously occupied by Euboean pottery...

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Helios

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Hyginus states that it was Helios himself who built it. In one Greek vase painting, Helios appears riding across the sea in the cup of the Delphic tripod...

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Periclymene

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and brother of Phylacus. Periclymene, one of the maenads named in a vase painting. Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Apollodorus, 1.8.2; 1.9.14; 1.9.16 & 3.10.4 Hyginus...

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Maenad

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tried to kill Lycurgus. The names of the maenads according to various vase paintings were: Anthe ("Flower"), Bacche, Kale ("Beauty"), Kalyke ("Bud"), Choiros...

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Greek Dark Ages

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superior pottery technology that included a faster potter's wheel for superior vase shapes and the use of a compass to draw perfect circles and semicircles for...

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Women in Greece

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whores through the lens of Greek ideology. "Scenes of adornment within vase painting are a window into the women’s sphere, though they were not entirely...

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