1st Edition

Potter and Patron in Classical Athens

By T. B. L. Webster Copyright 1972
346 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

Pottery is the one industry in ancient Athens of which we have some detailed knowledge. In this book, originally published in 1972, Professor Webster examines the workshops, the painted pots and their purchasers over the period 600–400 B.C. The first chapter assembles the evidence for the size and organization of the industry, which seems to have consisted of a dozen or so family workshops,... Read more

List of Illustrations.  Abbreviations.  Foreword.  1. Potters  2. Special Commissions  3. Other Pictures with Contemporary or Special Names  4. Some Rare Scenes  5. Some Special Stories  6. Users and Subjects  7. Wedding and Funeral Scenes  8. Symposion and Komos Scenes  9. Dances  10. Cult Scenes  11. Victorious Athletes  12. Concerts  13. Other Pictures of Nike  14. Horsemen and Chariots  15. Athletics  16. Men and Women  17. Women  18. Various  19. Mythological Scenes  20. Purchasers and Patrons.  Index.

Biography

T. B. L. (Thomas Bertram Lonsdale) Webster (1905–1974) was a British archaeologist and classicist, particularly interested in Greek comedy. He started his career as Hulme Professor of Greek at Manchester University, where he remained for seventeen years. He then moved on to the chair of Greek at University College London, where he established the London Institute of Classical Studies. His final position was at Stanford University where he was Professor of Classics, Emeritus.