History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · New York, Scribner · leaf 504
s up to this point throw on the literary traditionspreserved for us, chiefly by Pliny, in regard to early painting.There is, perhaps, no subject which that writer has treatedwith greater vagueness; and we arc forced to the conclusionthat he really knew nothing about it, and did not com-prehend the… … EARLY GREEK PAINTERS 395 borrowed.^ Still, it may fairly be supposed that the names hementions are those of real persons, even if his account of theirachievements is vague or imaginary. There are also a fewstray items of information given by Aristotle, Aelian, Strabo,and Alhenagoras. Pliny - begins…
Pottery, Ancient · Mythology, Greek
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