Living Poets

[[File:Oltos Anacreon.png]]

<b>Image:</b> London, British Museum, 1836,0224.145. Illustration from Jahn, O. 1861. ''Über Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern''. Leipzig. Plate 3.

<b>Object description:</b> Red figure ''kylix'' (wine cup) showing Anacreon and two dancing youths.

<b>Object Archaeology:</b> Vulci, Lazio

<b>Inscriptions:</b> Interior: ΚΑΛΟΣ ΜΕΜΝΟΝ (καλός Μέμνων: “pretty Memnon”).  Exterior (Clockwise): ΛΥKOPIΣ (Λύκωρις: Lycoris); ΗΕΡΑΚΛΕΣ (Ἡρακλῆς: Heracles); ΑΝΑΚΡΕΟΝ (Ἀνακρέων: Anacreon); ΝΥΦΕΣ (?Νύμφης: Nymphes) (Jahn 1861: 756-60; Hartwig 1893: 89).

<b>Restorations:</b> Many breaks restored.

<b>Dimensions:</b> Height: 13 centimetres. Diameter: 33 centimetres.

==Bibliography==

<div id="bibliography">
*Beazly, J. D. and Caskey, L. 1954. ''Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston'', vol. 2. Boston, Mass. 61.

*Beazley, J. D. 1963. ''Attic Red Figure Vase-Painters''. 2nd ed. Oxford. 62-3.

*Boardman, J. and Kurtz, D. C. 1986.  ‘Booners.’ In J. Frel and M. True eds., ''Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum'', vol. 3. Malibu, Calif. 35-70.

*Hartwig, P. 1893. ''Die griechischen Meisterschalen der Blüthezeit des strengen rothfigurigen Stiles''. Berlin. 89.

*Jahn, O. 1861. ''Über Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern''. Leipzig.

*Price, S. D. 1990. ‘Anacreontic Vases Reconsidered.’ ''Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies'' 31 (2): 133-175.

*Richter, G. M. A. 1965. ''The Portraits of the Greeks I''. London. 76-77.

** and Smith, R. R. R. 1984. ''The Portraits of the Greeks''. London. 85.

*Salskov Roberts, H. 2002. ‘Anakreon in the Pictorial Arts.’ In B. Amden ed., ''Noctes Atticae : 34 articles on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and its Nachleben : Studies Presented to Jøergen Mejer on his Sixtieth Birthday, March 18, 2002.'' Copenhagen. 241-253.

*Schefold, K. and Bayard, A.-C. 1997. ''Die Bildnisse der Antiken Dichter, Redner und Denker.'' Basel. 76-79.
</div>