Greek Pottery Categories: – Stone Age – Early Bronze Age – Late Bronze Age – Sub-Mycenean (Dark Age) History
Greek Pottery Pottery was used to “store, transport, and drink liquids such as wine and water” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Depict mythological scenes Decorative pieces Uses
Greek Pottery Bronze Vessels
Greek Pottery Bronze Age—Pottery wheel Athens – Mythological depictions – Pots on graves Clay Pottery
Greek Pottery Pot styles: – Amphora--storage – Alabastron--perfume – Hydria--water – Lekythos--oil Styles
Painting Styles: – Geometric – Black-Figure – Red-Figure Greek Pottery Styles
Misc. Pictures Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black- figure oinochoe, c BC. Head of a griffin from a cauldron, third quarter of 7th century b.c. from Olympia Dionysos, Ariadne, satyrs and maenads. Side A of an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c B.C. From Thebes. Theseus. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts. Attic red-figure calyx, B.C. Idas and Marpessa are separated by Zeus. Attic red-figure psykter, c. 480 B.C., by the Pan Painter.
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