History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
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History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
Mythology, Classical, in art; Pottery, Ancient; Pottery, Etruscan; Pottery, Greek; Pottery, Roman
(3) The story of Tereus and his daughters, Prokne and Philomela.[1437]
(_a_) Tereus meeting Apate (Deceit); Prokne and Philomela in
chariots.
Naples 3233 = Reinach, i. 240.
(_b_) Prokne and the dumb Philomela:
Reinach, i. 308 (in Louvre).
(_c_) Aedonaia slaying Itys.
_J.H.S._ viii. p. 440 (= Munich 799_a_).
(4) The three sons of Pandion, Lykos, Nisos, and Pallas,[1438] with
Orneus the son of Erechtheus.
Reinach, i. 510 = Roscher, ii. 2187.
(5) The death of Prokris by the agency of Kephalos.
B.M. E 477 (with Siren as soul of Prokris or death-deity).
(6) Kreousa defended by Apollo from the attack of Ion.
Reinach, i. 375: cf. Eur. _Ion._ 1250 ff.
(7) Danaos taking refuge in Attica (?).
Reinach, i. 244 = _Wiener Vorl._ iii. 4, 2 (in Louvre).
(8) Echelos carrying off Basile.[1439]
_Arch. Anzeiger_, 1895, p. 39: see p. 27.
(9) The story of Diomos, the eponymous deme-hero (?).
B.M. B 178 = _J.H.S._ xiii. p. 116.
(10) Kodros, the last king of Athens.
Bologna 273 = Baumeister, iii. p. 1998, fig. 2148 = _Jahrbuch_,
1898, pl. 4.
The Kodros cup (completely published in _Wiener Vorl._ i. 4) is
decorated with groups of figures intended to illustrate the legendary
history of the great Attic families, in accordance with the
genealogising tendencies of the period (about 450 B.C.). The outer
scenes represent Theseus taking leave of Aigeus, and Ajax taking leave
of Lykos; and Aigeus and Ajax (Aias) are eponymous heroes of two Attic
tribes. On the Meidias vase in the British Museum[1440] we see a group
of Athenian tribal heroes, such as Akamas, Antiochos, Demophon, and
Hippothon, together with Medeia, who is also connected with Athens in
the Theseus scene of the Kodros cup.
* * * * *
Other isolated myths which occasionally appear on vases, but defy more
exact classification, may be briefly recorded here:
(1) Admetos and Alkestis.
Bibl. Nat. 918 = Reinach, i. 395 = Dennis, _Etruria_^2, ii.
frontispiece. See also p. 69.
(2) Agamedes and Trophonios as prisoners fed by Augias.
Louvre E 632 = Reinach, i. 349 (see Paus. ix. 37, 5; _Ann. dell’
Inst._ 1885, p. 130).
(3) Agrios seized by Oineus and bound on the altar.
B.M. F 155: see Anton. Liber. 37 and Vogel, _Scenen Eur. Trag._
p. 125.
(4) Atalante offering a cup to her antagonist Hippomenes.
R.F. kotyle in B.M.
(5) Atreus and Thyestes (the latter as suppliant in the former’s
palace?).
Millingen-Reinach, 23 = _Wiener Vorl._ B. 4, 1.
(6) Daidalos and Ikaros, flight of.
Naples 1767 = _Gaz. Arch._ 1884, pls. 1–2.
(7) Glaukos in the tomb brought to life by the seer Polyeidos.
B.M. D 5 = Plate XL.: see Apollod. iii. 3, 1.
(8) Kanake’s suicide.
Reinach, i. 448.
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