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In ancient Roman culture, the olla (archaic Latin: aula or aulla; Greek: χύτρα, chytra) [1] [2] [3] is a squat, rounded pot or jar. An olla would be used primarily to cook or store food, hence the word " olla " is still used in some Romance languages for either a cooking pot or a dish in the sense of cuisine .
Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), [1] it has exerted a disproportionately large influence on our understanding of Greek society. The shards of pots discarded ...
The Daemones Ceramici or the Daimones Keramikoi (Ancient Greek: Δαίμονες Κεραμικοί, romanized: Daímones Keramikoí, lit. 'ceramic spirits', Attic Greek: [ke.ra.miˈkoi̯ ˈdai̯.mo.nes]; singular: Κεραμικός Δαίμων, Keramikós Daímon, [ke.ra.miˈkos ˈdai̯.mɔːn]) in Greek mythology are five malevolent spirits who plagued the craftsman potter:
Much of our written information about Greek pots come from such late writers as Athenaios and Pollux and other lexicographers who described vases unknown to them, and their accounts are often contradictory or confused. With those caveats, the names of Greek vases are fairly well settled, even if such names are a matter of convention rather than ...
Classical mythology, also known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology, along with philosophy and political thought , is one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later, including modern, Western culture . [ 1 ]
Pottery kraters were glazed on the interior to make the surface of the clay more impervious for holding water, and possibly for aesthetic reasons, since the interior could easily be seen. The exterior of kraters often depicted scenes from Greek life, such as the Attic Late 1 Krater, which was made between 760 and 735 B.C.E.
In Greek mythology, Limos (Ancient Greek: Λιμός, romanized: Līmós, lit. 'Famine, Hunger, Starvation') [1] is the personification of famine or hunger. Of uncertain sex, Limos was, according to Hesiod's Theogony, the offspring of Eris (Strife), with no father mentioned. [2]
The hydria (Greek: ὑδρία; pl.: hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC). [1] The etymology of the word hydria was first noted when it was stamped on a hydria itself, its direct translation meaning 'jug'.