Greek Pottery

1. Greek Pottery History • Categories: • Stone Age • Early Bronze Age • Late Bronze Age • Sub-Mycenean (Dark Age)

2. Greek Pottery Uses • Pottery was used to “store, transport, and drink liquids such as wine and water” (EncyclopaediaBritannica) • Depict mythological scenes • Decorative pieces

3. Greek Pottery Bronze Vessels

4. Greek Pottery Clay Pottery • Bronze Age—Pottery wheel • Athens • Mythological depictions • Pots on graves

5. Greek Pottery Styles • Pot styles: • Amphora--storage • Alabastron--perfume • Hydria--water • Lekythos--oil

6. Greek Pottery Styles • Painting Styles: • Geometric • Black-Figure • Red-Figure

7. Misc. Pictures Head of a griffin from a cauldron, third quarter of 7th century b.c. from Olympia Aeneas carrying Anchises. Attic black-figure oinochoe, c. 520-510 BC. Dionysos, Ariadne, satyrs and maenads. Side A of an Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 400-375 B.C. From Thebes. Idas and Marpessa are separated by Zeus. Attic red-figure psykter, c. 480 B.C., by the Pan Painter. Theseus. From Theseus and the Gathering of the Argonauts. Attic red-figure calyx, 460-450 B.C.

8. Sources • Carr, Karen, Dr. "Greek Pottery." Kidipede. Portland State University, 4 Nov. 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/pottery/greekpots.htm>. • "Greek Pottery -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia." Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/244731/Greek-pottery>. • Gill, N. S. "Ancient Greek Pottery." About.com. The New York Times Company, 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekart/ig/Greek-Pottery/>. • The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ancient Greek Bronze Vessels." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2010. <http://metmuseum.org/toah/hd/agbv/ hd_agbv.htm>. There is an illustration on the wall behind the pottery potty training chair showing how the child would sit in this clay potty chair.