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Greek Theories of Art and Literature Down to 400 B.C.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

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Greek art and literature follow parallel courses through the long period from Homer to Euripides. Homer and Euripides, Dipylon vases and the latest white lekythoi are as far apart from each other as it is possible for works in the same medium to be. The distance can only be explained by a similar change in the views of artists, writers, and their public.

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page 168 note 12 275d. See App. vii of Schuhl's Platon et l'art de son temps, though all his instances do not seem to me relevant.

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page 169 note 10 235a, 264c.

page 169 note 11 266d.

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page 170 note 2 862. See Radermacher, ad loc.

page 170 note 3 1113. See Radermacher, ad loc.

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page 174 note 4 41 ff.

page 174 note 5 Particularly lon and Apology 22.

Page 174 note 6 B. 21, cf. 18 and Epicharmus B. 57 (not genuine, but fifth century).

page 174 note 7 B. 11, 10.

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page 174 note 10 50 αὐτ⋯ δ⋯ σϕισιν ⋯πασε τ⋯χναν | π⋯σαν ⋯πιχθον⋯ων Τλαυκ⋯πις ⋯ριστοπ⋯νοις χερσ⋯ κρατεῖν.

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page 174 note 13 e.g. xv. 47.

page 174 note 14 e.g. 67 D, with S.-S. i. 463. 8.

page 174 note 15 22 f.

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page 175 note 3 488.

page 175 note 4 e.g. A 604.

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page 176 note 1 Cf. the demands of the Chinese painter, Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (1555–1636 A.D.), ap. Sirén, , The Chinese on the Art of Painting, 142Google Scholar.

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page 176 note 3 Ibid. 19. Robert also quotes the Amphiaraus krater, and pictures of Troilus and of Peleus and Thetis.

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page 177 note 12 Ʃ 418.

page 177 note 13 Ʃ 483.

page 177 note 14 τ 229. In the Shield (Ʃ 548) ⋯ρηρομ⋯νη δ⋯ ⋯ῴκει means ‘seemed to have been ploughed’ (cf. Z 389–90) rather than ‘was like a ploughed field’; but Homer is referring to the Minoan use of niello on gold (cf. Lorimer, , J.H.S. 1929, 146Google Scholar), and Minoan art is more realistic than early Greek art.

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page 178 page 2 See above, p. 166, n. 10.

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page 178 note 11 Ʃ 376. They had wheels (cf. B.S.A. xxxv. 88).

page 178 note 12 e.g. Pfuhl, fig. 121.

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page 179 note 3 Ibid. 52, pl. 39d.

page 179 note 4 Ibid. 32, pl. 15b.

page 179 note 5 C.V.A. California, pl. xxv. 1.

page 179 note 6 Pfuhl, fig. 413.

page 179 note 7 Pfuhl, fig. 418.

page 179 note 8 e.g. M 278, particularly 281 f. Cf. S.-S. i 103; and in general, van Groningen, paratactische Composite.

page 179 note 9 e.g. Ibycus, 6 D.

page 179 note 10 e.g. particularly late Euripidean choruses, Hel. 1107, etc.

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