V.—The Vases of Magna Graecia

Talfourd Ely Esq.

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V.—The Vases of Magna Graecia

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Talfourd Ely Esq.

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When we reflect on the grandeur, wealth, and power of the numerous representatives of Hellenic culture that caused a considerable portion of Italy to be called a greater Greece, we can hardly fail to be struck with the scanty knowledge we possess of their political and social history.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 1896 , pp. 113 - 124

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900014284 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1896

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^{page 113 note a} Polybius, ii. 39, ἐν τοῖς κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν τόποις, κατὰ τὴν Μεγάλην Ἑλλάδα τότε πϱοσαγο ρευομένην; Livy, xxxi. 7, Tarentini … oraque illa Italiae, quam Majorem Græciam vocant; Ovid, Fasti, iv. 64, Itala nam tellus Græcia Major erat. As to the origin of the epithet, see Athenaeus, xii. 523, e.

^{page 113 note b} e. g. in vi. 127, the mention of Smindyrides as pre-eminent among the gilded youth of Sybaris.

^{page 113 note c} According to Heraclides Ponticus (quoted by Athenaeus, xii. 522 a) the Sybarites set up an opposition to the Olympic games.

^{page 113 note d} Paus. vi. 19, 11. Cf. F. Lenormant, La Grande-Grèce, i. 133, “Métaponte est un désert et on y arrive par le désert.” So Cicero speaks of Magna Grœcia generally, “Quae nunc quidem deleta est; “De Amicitia, iv.

^{page 114 note a} There is no complete list of the Greek colonies, but, according to Pliny, Miletus alone founded over ninety: “Miletus … super nonaginta urbium per cuncta maria genetrix.”—Nat. Hist. v. 31.

^{page 114 note b} Studien zur Geschichte des griechischen Alphabets (4th edition), 156.

^{page 114 note c} VII. 1.

^{page 115 note a} Mr. H. F. Tozer, in the Journal of Hellenic Studies for 1889 (x. 11), states that there are still “twenty thousand persons in the South of Italy who speak Greek as their native tongue.”

^{page 115 note b} See “Linguistie Islands,” by Prince L. L. Bonaparte, in the Transactions of the Philological Society, 1888–90, p. 339.

^{page 115 note c} Ibid. 363, where reference is made to the treatises of Professors Comparetti, Morosi, and Pellegrini.

^{page 115 note d} Journal of Hellenic Studies, x. 37. Mr. Tozer concludes (p. 42) that “the Greek-speaking population of South Italy … are the descendants of the Byzantine Greeks, who migrated thither not later than the eleventh century.”

^{page 115 note e} Peintures de vases antiques, Introduction, pp. ix. x.

^{page 115 note f} In 1828. See Gerhard's “Rapporto Volcente,” in Annali d. Inst. iii. 5.

^{page 116 note a} In his introduction to Peintures de vases antiques, p. vii.

^{page 116 note b} Ibid. 3.

^{page 116 note c} Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Vases of the late Sir William Hamilton.

^{page 117 note a} No. 1,830 in Furtwängler's Beschreibung. For illustrations see Mr. Cecil Smith in vol. ii. 309, and Mr. A. S. Murray in vol. vii. 54, of the Journal of Hellenic Studies.

^{page 117 note b} Now in the British Museum, in wall-case 7 of the Second Vase-room. For further details see Mr. Walters in Journal of Hellenic Studies, xiii. 77–78, and M. Reinach in the Gaz. des Beaux-Arts for March, 1894. For a later Theban cup at Oxford, with Boreas and Odysseus, see Prof. Gardner, Museum Oxoniense, p. 18 and pl. xxvi.

^{page 117 note c} Fourth Vase-room, wall-case 69.

^{page 117 note d} Ibid, wall-case 72.

^{page 117 note e} See Heydemann, Die Phlyakendarstellungen auf bemalten Vasen, Jahrbuch d.Inst. i. 260–313. Cf. Jahn's Einleitung.

^{page 117 note f} See Arch. Ztg. for 1849, Taf. 12. Euripides was the favourite source, and he is said himself to have been in his youth a painter. See Vogel, Scenen euripideischen Tragödien in griechischen Vasengemälden, pp. 6 and 7.

^{page 117 note g} Fourth Vase-room, wall-case 18 No. F. 149. See Mr.Murray, A. S., in Journal of Hellenic Studies, xi. 225–230, plates vi. and viiGoogle Scholar.

^{page 118 note a} Monumenti inediti Inst. di Corr. Arch., viii. 9.

^{page 118 note b} No. 849 of Otto Jahn's Beschreibung. Cf. Baumeister, Denkmäler, p. 1928, and pl. lxxxvii. It is given in colour by Lau, Die griechischen Vasen, pl. xxxv.

^{page 118 note c} Die Vasensammlungen des Museo Nazionale zu Neapel, beschrieben von H. Heydemann.

^{page 118 note d} See Mau, Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji, p. 124 foll. Pl. iii.-ix.

^{page 118 note e} In Baumeister's Denkmäler, p. 2006.

^{page 118 note f} See Lau, Die griechischen Vasen, pl. xlii. 1. c; Genick, Griechische Keramik, pls. viii.-x. On one such vase in the British Museum (F 175 in the Fourth Vase-room) there is a picture of a vase of the same make.

^{page 118 note g} No. 315 in wall-case 55. Cf. Furtwängler's “Apulische-geometrische Gattung,” No. 276, and Form 14 in his Beschreibung. Prof. Gardner seems not to think them so early. See Museum Oxoniense, p. 3; and No. 83, fig. 8, on p. 4.

^{page 119 note a} e.g. on F. 278, Pedestal 12, in the Fourth Vase-room, the Death of Priam, and the meeting of Menelaos and Helen at the taking of Troy.

^{page 119 note b} See Von Rohden, in Baumeister's Denkmäler, p. 2007. The others who signed were Python and Lasimos (Jahn, Einleitung, ccxxxi.).

^{page 119 note c} Humoristische Vasenbilder.

^{page 119 note d} No. 2473 of Heydemann's Catalogue. It represents Herakles and the Hesperides.

^{page 119 note e} See pls. i. and iii. of Genick's Oriechische Keramik.

^{page 119 note f} There are some fine examples of this class (dating from the last half of the fourth century) in the Third Vase-room of the British Museum, cases 17 to 24.

^{page 119 note g} Archaeologia, xlviii. 45.

^{page 120 note a} Some of the vases in the Koller collection at Berlin are 3 feet 5 inches high, or, with the handles, 4 feet; e. g. No. 3,258 of Furtwängler's Beschreibung. See O. Müller, Anc. Art, 301, 1.

^{page 120 note b} e. g. in the British Museum, Fourth Vase-room, on an Apulian amphora, F. 335, in wall-case 15; also on a kelebe, F. 297, in wall-case 48.

^{page 120 note c} Yet compare the figures of athletes, about a foot high, on the reverse of the Lucanian amphora, F. 184, on pedestal 7 in the Fourth Vase-room.

^{page 120 note d} See Section 11 of Brunn and Krell's introduction to Lau's Die griechischen Vasen, and Taf. xxxv.

^{page 121 note a} Compare the section of an amphora in Pl. xxxv. of Lau's Die griechischen Vasen with that in Pl. viii.

^{page 121 note b} As on two amphoræ in Passeri, Picturae Etruscorum, plates 264 and 265.

^{page 121 note c} Ibid. plates 143 and 182.

^{page 121 note d} Ibid. plate 272.

^{page 121 note e} Fourth Vase-room, wall-case 22, No. F. 286.

^{page 121 note f} On an amphora in Passeri, op. cit. pl. 182, there are three figures, forming a dramatic tableau.

^{page 121 note g} Passeri, op. cit. plates 190, 267, 270, 271.

^{page 121 note h} Plate 260.

^{page 121 note i} Of the eleven portraits in the National Gallery none have grey hair, though two women and one man have an elderly appearance.

^{page 121 note k} Fourth Vase-room, wall-case 16, No. F. 281.

^{page 121 note l} Lucian, De Syria Dea, 35, speaks of a bearded Apollo as existing at Hierapolis, but as a thing foreign to Greek ideas; indeed, representations of the bearded Apollo are very rare. Three I have observed on black figured amphoræ in the British Museum (B. 147, 212, and 260, in the Second Vase-room). Cf. the François vase and the Melian vase and a fragment from the Acropolis at Athens. See also Gerhard, Trinkschalen, Taf. 4, 5 (a black-figured kylix from Tarquinii, Annali d. Inst. iii. 146, note 313); and Auserlesene Vasen, i. 1. Cf. p. 117, note 64; and Stark, Archäologische Zeitung, xii. 321 (a marble statue at Lyons; but the genuineness of the inscription is doubtful. See Overbeck, Zeus, p. 572, note 91, and Apollon, p. 367).

^{page 122 note a} As in the picture of the mad Herakles by Assteas, Mon. Inst. viii. 10.

^{page 122 note b} Meisterwerke, p. 151.

^{page 123 note a} In Plate iv. of his Beschreibung.

^{page 123 note b} Athenaeus (475) speaks of κελέβη as an ἔκπωμα or drinking-cup; but he seems to have misunderstood his own quotation from Anakreon.

^{page 124 note a} Mon. Inst. viii. Taf. xxi. See Helbig, Ann., 1865, pp. 262–295.

^{page 124 note b} See Friederichs-Wolters, Bausteine, p. 398, No. 1,197.

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