ISBN 978-0-89236-781-8

How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colors

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Dora Thornton is curator of Renaissance collections in the Department of Medieval and Modern Europe in the British Museum and the author of The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy

Vassilis Lambrinoudakis

Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C. CAA24 ISBN 978-0-89236-781-8Oliver Taplin This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase paintings of fourth century BCE Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. The pots do not, it is argued, show the plays as such, but gain depth and complexity from recalling the tragic vision of particular