

In the figurative repertoire, Herakles holds a privileged position alongside Dionysos, but he is quite different from the hero of the classical era. The popularity of this shape is perhaps associated with local cult practices. This accounts for the discovery of a number of Attic vases in Boeotia, notably in Tanagra.īased on these discoveries, the most popular type of vase in Boeotia was the chalice-shaped crater, which has a more slender form than in the previous century. 373.Exports of Athenian ceramics to northern Greece, which began in the 5th century BC, continued throughout the following century.

to the eighteenth century A.D., being the collection of the widely known connoiseur Mr.

Thomas Mannack, The Late Mannerists in Athenian Vase Painting (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 17–19.Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 9–10, no. "Antiquities at the Hood," Hood Museum of Art Quarterly 31 (Spring/Summer 2011): 2, ill.Essi Ronkko and Hood Museum of Art, "Hood Museum," (accessed June 2011-July 2021).
