Douris and the Painters of Greek Vases

by Edmond Pottier

BY EDMOND POTTIER
MEMBRE DE L’INSTITUT

TRANSLATED BY
BETTINA KAHNWEILER

WITH A PREFACE BY
JANE ELLEN HARRISON
HON.D.LITT.DURHAM, HON.LL.D.ABERDEEN

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1909

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DEDICATED
IN LOVE AND GRATITUDE TO
AUGUST LEWIS

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PREFACE

The translator of M. Pottier’s monograph on Douris has kindly asked me to write, by way of preface, a few words on the relation of Greek vase-painting to Greek literature and to Greek mythology. I do this with the more pleasure because this relation has, I think, been somewhat seriously misunderstood, and M. Pottier’s delightful monograph which, thanks to Miss Kahnweiler, is now given to us in English form, should do much to clear away misconception and to set the matter before us in a light at once juster and more vivid.

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