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Discussion about the use of color in vase paintings, the significance of boar hunts, and the language of eroticism.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of MOOC The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, in response to participants’ questions.
With Leonard Muellner, Sarah Scott
Image credits:
Charioteer of Delphi, 470s BCE, bronze. Delphi Museum, Greece
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François vase, black-figure volute krater, 570–560 BCE, National Archaeological Museum of Florence
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Amphora with Achilles and Penthesilea at the British Museum:
britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=399372&partId=1&searchText=vase+exekias&page=1
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Discussion about the use of color in vase paintings, the significance of boar hunts, and the language of eroticism.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of MOOC The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, in response to participants’ questions.
With Leonard Muellner, Sarah Scott
Image credits:
Charioteer of Delphi, 470s BCE, bronze. Delphi Museum, Greece
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAurigaDelfi.jpg
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license
François vase, black-figure volute krater, 570–560 BCE, National Archaeological Museum of Florence
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kleitias_e_vasaio_ergotimos,_cratere_fran%C3%A7ois,_570_ac_ca._02.JPG
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and
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_archeologico_di_Firenze,_Vaso_Fan%C3%A7ois_5.JPG
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
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Amphora with Achilles and Penthesilea at the British Museum:
britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=399372&partId=1&searchText=vase+exekias&page=1
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
