[2]. Remains of Neolithic pottery have recently been found in Crete (J.H.S. xxiii. p. 158) and in the Cyclades.
[3]. Cat. des Vases Antiques du Louvre i. p. 18.
[4]. Miss Harrison, Mythology and Monuments of Athens, preface, p. ii. The Introduction to this work contains some excellent examples of the modern method of using vase-paintings to elucidate mythology.
[5]. For the use of vase-paintings in illustration of Greek religious beliefs and customs, reference may be made to Miss Harrison’s Prolegomena to Greek Religion (Cambridge Press, 1903), containing many interesting interpretations of scenes on the vases which may bear on the subject.
[6]. See Chapter [XIV]., ad fin.
[7]. Ant. Denkm. i. 57.
[8]. Cf. for instance Berlin 2154 (Endt, Ion. Vasenm. p. 29).
[9]. Collignon, Hist. de la Sculpt. Grecque, i. p. 362.
[10]. Gerhard, Auserl. Vasenb. 81.
[11]. As, for instance, the subjects of Odysseus and Philoktetes; Orestes slaying Aegisthos; the death of Polyxena; Theseus fetching the ring from Amphitrite. Cf. Huddilston, Lessons from Greek Pottery, p. 28.