Dionýsovská tématika na jihoitalských vázách

• Main Author: Kalasová, Barbora
• Other Authors: Musil, Jiří
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-289128

South Italy, once called Magna Graecia, was source of ancient Greek pottery fabricated mostly during the fourth century B.C. which is commonly called South Italian pottery. First, many scholars thought, that this pottery was imported from Athens, but in fact the Greeks living in South Italy produced here their own red- figured pottery since the end of fifth century B.C. Many workshops were influenced by Attic pottery and they developed their own style later during the fourth century B.C. All South Italian workshops initially took up the style of Attic workshops of Athens, when many craftsmen left the city because of the Peloponnesian Wars. Five areas or schools of South Italian pottery, that produced the red-figured ware, are identified: Apulia (various workshops in Taras), Lucania (Heraclea, Metaponto), Paestum (Paestum), Campania (Capua and Cumae) and Sicily (Syracuse and Lipari). The red-figured pottery was produced here between 440 B.C. and the end of fourth century B.C. Almost all pottery forms that were developed in Greece were produced also in South Italy. Very popular were calyx-craters and bell-craters, which were marvellously decorated by the vase painters. South Italian potters developed some new pottery forms and shapes(bail amphora, nestoris etc.). At first the elements of decoration were the...