3. Chronology

5. Digging the Clay Corinthian Pinax, c. 750 BCE

6. Settling the Clay Modern Clay Pits, c. 1960.

7. Forming the Pot Skyphos with Potter’s Wheel, c. 550 BCE

9. “ Painting” the Pots Red-Figure Bell Krater, Pottery Workshop, Early Classical, c. 480-450 BCE

12. White Ground White Ground: white-firing slip Color: either pigments with white slip or tempera White Ground Lekythos, Woman Playing Lyre, Late Classical, c. 420 BCE * Tempera is a water-based paint with a egg white and/or glue binder * This is much like the buon fresco technique.

13. Black-Figure Hydria, Pottery Workshop, Archaic, c. 550 BCE Feeding the Kiln

15. The Kiln If you will pay me for my song, O potters, Then come, Athena, and hold thy hand above the kiln! May the kotyloi and all the kanastra turn a good black, May they be well fired and fetch the price aked, Many being sold in the marketplace and many on the roads, And bring in much money, and may my song be pleasing. But if you (potters) turn shameless and deceitful, Then do I summon the ravagers of kilns, Both Syntrips (Smather) and Smaragos (Crasher) and Asbetos (Unquenchable) too, and Sabaktes (Shake-to-Pieces) And Omodamos (Conquereor of the Unbaked), who makes much trouble for this craft. Stamp on stoking tunnel and chambers, and may the whole kiln Be thrown into confusing, while the potters loudly wail. As grinds a horse’s jaw so may the kiln grind To powder all the pots within it. [Come, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe of many spells, Cast cruel spells, do evil to them and their handiwork. Here too let Cheiron lead many Centaurs, Both those that escaped the hands of Heralkles and those that perished. May they his these pots hard, and may the kiln collapse. And may the potters wail as they see the mischief. But I shall rejoiced at the sight of their luckless craft.] And if anyone bends over to look into the spy-hole, may his whole face Be scorched, so that all may learn to deal justly.

16. Decorative Motifs: Key Meander

18. Decorative Motifs: Ivy

19. Decorative Motifs: Egg and Dart

20. Everyday Life: Symposium

21. Everyday Life: Symposium Kobattos

22. Everyday Life: Symposium Hetaira

23. Everyday Life: Symposium Makron (Painter) and Hieron (Potter), Red-Figure Kylix with Symposium Scenes, Greek, Attic, c. 480 BCE. Ivy = Dionysus

25. Everyday Life: Fetching Water Hydria with Fountain Scene, Greek, Attic, Black-Figure, ca. 510-500 BCE Fountain houses were also places for women to socialize and interact.

26. Everyday Life: Fetching Water Hydria with Fountain Scene, Greek, Attic, Black-Figure, ca. 510-500 BCE Fountain houses were also places where women and children could refresh themselves. *

27. Everyday Life: The Toilette

28. Everyday Life: The Toilette Red-Figure Lekythos with Domestic Scene, Attica, Greece, Early Classical, 475-450 BCE

29. Everyday Life: The Toilette Red-Figure Squat Lekythos with Woman Dressing, Attica, Greece, Early Classical, 475-450 BCE

30. Everyday Life: The Toilette Red-Figure Squat Lekythos with Woman Dressing, Attica, Greece, Early Classical, 475-450 BCE

31. Everyday Life: Theater Theater Scene, Krater, Apulian Red Ware, c. 500 BCE. Theater Mask

32. Everyday Life: Theater Attributed to the Konnakis Group, Calyx-krater depicting a phlyax masquerading as a reveler, Red-figure, Greek, South Italian, Apulian, ca. 400–390 b.c.; Theater Mask

33. Everyday Life: Theater Attributed to the Konnakis Group, Calyx-krater depicting a phlyax masquerading as a reveler, Red-figure, Greek, South Italian, Apulian, ca. 400–390 b.c.; Theater Mask

34. Everyday Life: Panathenaic Festival Panathenaic Amphora with a foot race, Attic Black Figure, Archaic c. 540 BCE

35. Everyday Life: Panathenaic Festival

36. Mythological Scenes: Dionysus and the Pirates Exekias, Dionysus and the Pirates, Attic Black Figure, Archaic, 540 BCE

39. Mythological Scenes: Trojan War Exekias, The Suicide of Ajax, Black-Figure Amphora, Archaic, c. 540 BCE

40. Mythological Scenes Achilles killing Penthesilea, Attic Black-Figure Amphora, Archaic, 540-530 BCE