CLST 129 Lecture Notes - Black-Figure Pottery, Odysseus, Gorgon Painter
30 Nov 2012
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The late pots were a lot lighter then the early pots because they added more decoration. There were many workshops in athens that developed different pots for different things. These pots had a hole in the bottom so they could poor things into it and it would go down into the ground to help the ancestors in the afterlife. Kraters were used in male burials and amphoras were used in female burials. They have the same geometric template for lots of animals. Horror vacui is a fear of empty spaces, every part of the pot is covered. With the geometric art they don"t show details. By the end people tried to get my ambitious with the scenes they portray. Getting lots of ideas from their trade partners. Next part of odysseus journey, the men hang onto the sheep to escape the cyclopes cave. The people look more people like, they are filled out and have faces.
