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Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
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ths were treated in preference. The infinitely varied treatmentproves the popularity of those lyrical and dramatic versions. Inthe decaying style, not only battles of Amazons and Kentaurs,and scenes from the Hades, but also the subjects of tragedies, aredepicted, the situations of the latter being evidently imitatedfrom the stage, including even the variegated colours of thecostumes. The whole impression becomes theatrical in conse-quence. Sometimes mythological scenes and characters have beencaricatured as on the comic stage (see pictures of this land in § 58). DEVELOPMENT OF VASE-PAINTING. 147 The vases of Lucania and Apulia moreover show frequentlvrepresentations of Greek burial-rites as modified by the SouthItalian populations. Jahn from this fact concludes the existenceof local manufactures c. p. ccxxxi,), which is confirmed by theinscriptions on the vessels. They belong to a post-Alexandrineperiod, those of the beautiful style dating from the timebetween Perikles and Alexander.
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Fig. 198. In some Etruscan cities earthenware was manufactured bylocal artists working after Greek patterns. The figures aredistinguished from genuine Greek work by the contours beingincised very deeply and filled up with red colour. The clayalso is coarser. The compositions show an admixture of localmyths and usages, not to mention Etruscan inscriptions. 38. Hitherto we have considered the various artistic styles of l 2 T48 NAMES OF VESSELS.—STORING-VESSELS. vessels. Now we must try to distinguish their names and forms bythe varieties of their uses. Ancient writers have transmitted to usa variety of names for them, which in some cases may be verifiedby inscriptions on individual vessels. The naming, however, ofmany of them is very difficult, and the attempts of Panofka inthis direction have met with much contradiction amongst archae-ologists. Their nomenclature amongst the ancients seems to havebeen much more diversified than is the case at the present day.We have collected forty-o

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