10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LECYTHUS»
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1
American Journal of Archaeology
-/ia]^o?. There are no human figures and there never have been any. This
lecythus does not fit into any one of the groups established by Professor Arthur
Fairbanks in his Athenian White Lekythoi. Except for the white shoulder and neck
and ...
2
A catalogue of the Greek vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum, ...
Lecythus, rounded body, top curving out from neck. Height, 42 m. Ornamentation,
as 85. Subject. Very rude indication of reclining figure on couch; on either side,
seated figure. Leake Collection ; Athens. 88. Lecythus, cylindrical body, cup ...
Fitzwilliam Museum, Ernest Arthur Gardner, 1897
3
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
Similarly treated are a small lecythus from K. 19, and a round-bellied jug with
short neck from K. 21. In K. 41 was found a cylix, probably early, with the familiar
Gorgoneion in the centre with staring eyes and tongue out. Tomb 10 produced a
...
4
Catalogue of the collection of Assyrian, Babylonian, ...
47 LECYTHUS. Proserpine mounting in a quadriga, Bacchus at the side of the
horses, Demeter seated in front, and Apollo and Bacchus at the side of the
horses. Athenian style. 7i in- h. 18 LECYTHUS. Bacchus seated, holding vine
and keras, ...
5
The history of Thucydides, newly tr. and illustr. with ...
which lay off at anchor, to the citadel called Lecythus 6, which the Athenians held,
and which occupied a height above the city 7 to the seaward, of which the site
was cut off from the continent at a narrow isthmus.8 Thither also took refuge such
...
6
The History of Thucydides: Newly Tr. Into English...with ...
which lay off at anchor, to the citadel called Lecythus 6, which the Athenians held,
and which occupied a height above the city 7 to the seaward, of which the site
was cut off from the continent at a narrow isthmus.8 Thither also took refuge such
...
7
Catalogue of antiquities in the National museum of the ...
Lecythus, on which are painted a female driving a chariot, &c ; black figures on a
red ground. 166. Lecythus, three male and two female figures dancing, one
playing upon a musical instrument ; red ware. 167. Lecythus, man fighting with a
bull ...
National museum of antiquities of Scotland, 1865
8
American journal of archaeology
PosKiDON and Amymone: picture ever has before. But Lecythus: New York.
unavoidably it loses also in its carrying power as design. And since pots are more
appropriately ornamented with designs than with paintings, the decorative effect
of ...
9
The Landmark Thucydides
Having encouraged them with this address, he made his attack upon Lecythus as
soon as the truce expired, and the Athenians defended themselves from a poor
wall and from some houses with parapets. [2] For one day they beat him off.
Thucydides, Robert B. Strassler, 2008
When the Athenians were alerted (this was a force of about fifty hoplites, sleeping
in the agora), a few of them were killed in hand-to-hand fighting but the rest
managed to make their escape to safety in the fort of Lecythus, either on foot or
by ...
