Asteas, the Glossary
Asteas (active between 350 and 320 BC in Paestum, Southern Italy) was one of the more active ancient Greek vase painters in Magna Graecia, practicing the red-figure style.[1]
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8 relations: Ancient Greece, Arthur Dale Trendall, Hydria, Krater, Magna Graecia, National Archaeological Museum (Madrid), Paestum, Red-figure pottery.
- Artists of Magna Graecia
- Lucanian Greeks
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Arthur Dale Trendall
Arthur Dale Trendall, (28 March 1909 – 13 November 1995) was a New Zealand art historian and classical archaeologist whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia and other sites earned him international prizes and a papal knighthood.
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Hydria
The hydria (ὑδρία;: hydriai) is a form of Greek pottery from between the late Geometric period (7th century BC) and the Hellenistic period (3rd century BC).
Krater
A krater or crater (κρᾱτήρ|krātḗr|mixing vessel,; crātēr) was a large two-handled type of vase in Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water.
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.
National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
The National Archaeological Museum (Museo Arqueológico Nacional; MAN) is a archaeology museum in Madrid, Spain.
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Paestum
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia.
Red-figure pottery
Red-figure pottery is a style of ancient Greek pottery in which the background of the pottery is painted black while the figures and details are left in the natural red or orange color of the clay.
See Asteas and Red-figure pottery
See also
Artists of Magna Graecia
Lucanian Greeks
- Aesara
- Aresas
- Asteas
- Aulus Licinius Archias
- Nearchus of Elea
- Ocellus Lucanus
- Parmenides
- Zeno of Elea