Friday, July 03, 2020
The Whole of Life
Robin Osborne, Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 100:
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The Amasis Painter was a virtuoso who brought life to painted pottery. He painted the whole of life: men run, drink, hunt, ride horses, drive chariots, consort with Dionysos, wrestle, box, play the aulos and the lyre, dance, pay court to women and boys, masturbate, marry, put on armour, go to war, and get locked in combat; women weave, play the aulos, amorously encounter men, marry, and wave warrior husbands goodbye; dogs defecate.
