Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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:
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.
A Roman wall painting showing the Egyptian goddess Isis (seated right) welcoming the Greek heroine Io to Egypt. Interpretatio graeca (Latin for 'Greek translation'), or "interpretation by means of Greek [models]", refers to the tendency of the ancient Greeks to identify foreign deities with their own gods.
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 ]
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 .
Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. It was especially common between the 7th and 5th centuries BC, although there are specimens dating in the 2nd century BC.
Silver kylix with Helen and Hermes, c. 420 BC. In the pottery of ancient Greece, a kylix (/ ˈ k aɪ l ɪ k s / KY-liks, / ˈ k ɪ l ɪ k s / KIL-iks; Ancient Greek: κύλιξ, pl. κύλικες; also spelled cylix; pl.: kylikes / ˈ k aɪ l ɪ k iː z / KY-lih-keez, / ˈ k ɪ l ɪ k iː z / KIL-ih-keez) is the most common type of cup in the period, usually associated with the drinking of wine.