{"id":32754,"date":"2017-05-10T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=32754"},"modified":"2017-08-28T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:06:28","slug":"ancient-greek-pottery-from-southern-italy-and-sicily-on-display-in-the-classics-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2017\/05\/ancient-greek-pottery-from-southern-italy-and-sicily-on-display-in-the-classics-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Greek Pottery from Southern Italy and Sicily on Display in the Classics Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2017\/05\/ancient-greek-pottery-from-southern-italy-and-sicily-on-display-in-the-classics-library\/display17c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32759\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32759\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17c.jpg\" alt=\"vases\" width=\"600\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17c.jpg 2148w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17c-155x130.jpg 155w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17c-226x190.jpg 226w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17c-768x645.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Greece to Magna Graecia\u201d narrates in pottery the colonization by Greeks of parts of Southern Italy and Sicily beginning with the Euboeans founding the colony of Pithekoussai on the island of Ischia in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> c. BCE and the Corinthians Syracuse on Sicily in 733 BCE.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, on display in the <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.uc.edu\/classics.html\">Classics Library<\/a> Reading Room, features Corinthian miniature vessels, Attic black and red-figure vases as trading commodities, and Campanian red-figure. There is also an accompanying book exhibition highlighting literary sources on Magna Graecia as well as Greek temples, theaters, tomb paintings, etc., from Southern Italy and Sicily from the 8<sup>th<\/sup> to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> centuries BCE.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there is a display featuring models of Linear B tablets discovered by UC professor Carl Blegen at \u201cthe Palace of Nestor\u201d in Pylos. UC alumnus Emmett L. Bennett, together with Alice Kober, published the first definitive list of Linear B signs that formed the basis for Michael Ventris\u2019 identification of the script as an early form of Greek.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecka Lindau, Head, John Miller Burnam Classics Library<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2017\/05\/ancient-greek-pottery-from-southern-italy-and-sicily-on-display-in-the-classics-library\/display17b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32755\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-32755\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17b.jpg\" alt=\"pottery exhibit\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17b.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17b-155x116.jpg 155w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17b-254x190.jpg 254w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/display17b-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFrom Greece to Magna Graecia\u201d narrates in pottery the colonization by Greeks of parts of Southern Italy and Sicily beginning with the Euboeans founding the colony of Pithekoussai on the island of Ischia in the 8th c. BCE and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2017\/05\/ancient-greek-pottery-from-southern-italy-and-sicily-on-display-in-the-classics-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[19,37,12],"class_list":["post-32754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","tag-exhibits","tag-library-news","tag-newandnotable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}