Narrative

Question 1

Describe Pictorial Narratives (2)

Answer 1

• use of narrative scenes are more common in 6th cent. BCE
• Challenges with interpretation: many stories and variations don’t survive, written vs. dynamic narritive, no true myth, decoding

Question 2

Define monoscenic narraitive

Answer 2

Narrative picture in which action occurs at a single time and place

Question 3

Define synoptic narrative

Answer 3

Includes figures, actions, or objects that belong to different moments of a narrative

Question 4

Identification (6)

Answer 4

Circe Kylix
* 550-525 BCE (archaic)
* Unknown findspot
* Black figure kylix made of teracotta
* Synoptic narrative: shows Circe distoring Zenia (host exchanging gifts to visitors) by turning guests in animals, one escaping to report to Odysseus (far right), and Odysseus holding a sword (far left)
* Gibberish inscription could be from illiterate artists or to show animals that can’t talk
* Ironic because it is the same vessel Circe is holding

Question 5

Define continuous narrative

Answer 5

Multiple scenes are set in a continuous frieze or picture, repreats some participants from one scenet to next

Question 6

Identification (6)

Answer 6

Briseis Kylix
* 480 BCE
* Found in Vulci, Italy
* Attic red-figure kylix, teracotta
* Has a continuous narrative: multiple scenes set in a continuous frieze, repeating participants in next scene
* Homer’s Iliad: Briseis being taken away to be a concubine with wrist grabbed by herald, Achilles being seated in wartent with a mourning gesture to Briseis
* Funerary and wedding imagery: Achilles’ mourning and the wrist grab

Question 7

Describe cyclical narrative

Answer 7

• Multiple scenes are set in separate panels or pictures, repeating participants from one scene to next
• Mostly commonlu scene in metople decoration
• E.g. Athenian treasury at Delphi, Francois vase

Question 8

Identification (6)

Answer 8

Aptheosis of Herakles
* 510 BCE
* Heroon at Poseidonia/Paestum, Italy
* Attic black-figure amphora made of teracotta
* Found in a rectangular chamger w/ 8 bronze vessels of honey, no human remains found, and maybe honours founder of Poseidonia
* Dedicated of deification of Herakles
* Attributed to the Chiusi Painter