In some of these are found the ashes of the dead, in others bones broken up, and so preserved.
CHAPTER II.
UNGLAZED POTTERY.—THE GREEK VASE.
Palaces of Homer’s Heroes.—The Ceramicus at Athens.—Egyptian Pottery.—Etruscan Tombs.—Good and Bad Vases.—Age of Vases.—Various Styles.—The Archaic Style.—The Fine Style.—Beauty a Birthright.—Aspasia’s House.—Names of Vases.—The Cup of Arcesilaus.—Number of Extant Vases.—Their Uses.—The Greek Houses.—Greek Women.—Greek Men.—The Hetairai.—Etruscan Vases.
THE Greek Vase has come to be a synonym for beauty of form. Not that every Greek vase is perfect—by no means—but that the Greeks had come to feel and were able to express perfection of form in it as it had not been done before, and as it has not been better done since.
Fig. 27.—Egyptian Kylix.