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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 ...
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:
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 .
As the culture recovered Sub-Mycenaean pottery finally blended into the Protogeometric style, which begins Ancient Greek pottery proper. [citation needed] The rise of vase painting saw increasing decoration. Geometric art in Greek pottery was contiguous with the late Dark Age and early Archaic Greece, which saw the rise of the Orientalizing period.
"Fine" rather than luxury pottery is the main strength of Roman pottery, unlike Roman glass, which the elite often used alongside gold or silver tableware, and which could be extremely extravagant and expensive. It is clear from the quantities found that fine pottery was used very widely in both social and geographic terms.
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 ]
Another meaning of Vulcan is related to male fertilizing power. In various Latin and Roman legends he is the father of famous characters, such as the founder of Praeneste Caeculus, [31] Cacus, [32] a primordial being or king, later transformed into a monster that inhabited the site of the Aventine in Rome, and Roman king Servius Tullius.
Amphora is a Greco-Roman word developed in ancient Greek during the Bronze Age. The Romans acquired it during the Hellenization that occurred in the Roman Republic. Cato is the first known literary person to use it. The Romans turned the Greek form into a standard - a declension noun, amphora, pl. amphorae. [3]