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Methuen, Published 1972. Hardcover, xvi, 312 pp; 23 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs of vase paintings integrated throughout the text plus a 16-page section of black-and-white plates.
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In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Rust-colored cloth-covered boards with a black panel and gilt lettering to the spine; some fading and discoloration along the top edge of both front and rear covers. Binding tight; pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket orange-red pictorial with a black Greek krater on the front, white title lettering, and an "Also from Methuen" list on the rear panel; an approximately one-inch tear to the paper at the top edge of the rear panel, a few smaller nicks and tears at the edges, and mild fading to the top edge and spine; not price-clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Webster's study of the Athenian pottery industry and its patrons from 600 to 400 B.C., examining workshops, painted pots, and their purchasers. The first chapter assembles evidence for the size and organization of the industry, which appears to have consisted of about a dozen family workshops surviving across several generations and producing painted pottery alongside black-glaze pottery, lamps, moulded vases, and plain ware. Webster then turns to special commissions identifiable by unique scenes or named individuals, to the iconographic repertoire across genres (symposion and komos scenes, dances, cult scenes, athletics, women, mythological scenes), and finally to the patrons and purchasers themselves, with evidence drawn from dipinti, graffiti, advertised prices, findspots, and the names of leading Athenian families. T. B. L. Webster (1905-1974) was a Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Classics at Stanford University.Contents: 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. Uses 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.