51 o Pyre-extinguishing rain
night1—and of course the usual crop of moralising maxims. These
scattered hints have been put together with the utmost acumen by
R. Engelmann2, who supplements them from two important sources,
on the one hand Paestum and Campanian vase-paintings, on the
other hand the plays of Plautus.
I begin with the vases, since they are the earlier. A bell-^^'
found at Santa Agata dei Goti and now in the British Museum, was
painted by the ceramic artist Python (c. 320 B.C.3) with the following
Fig. 32
1 Eur.'k\Kiifyii frag. 104 (Trag. Gr. frag. p. 389 Nauck2) ap. Hesych.
1-
"VKTa- EuripideS'
- R. Engelmann in the Ann. d. Inst. 1872 xliv. :—18, id. Beitrage s" ^ragihf"
Alkmene Berlin 1882 pp. 1—20 with 2 figs., id. Archdologische Studien 2« den
Berlin 1900 pp. 52—63 with figs. 18, 19. jjapoli 185,7
3 On Python see G. Patroni La ceramica antica neW Italia meridionals ^ fuse"'
pp. 65—70 figs. 40 and 41, F. Mauser in Furtwiingler—Reichhold—Hause^^ jftcieft'
malerei iii. 60, Pfuhl Mahrei 11. Zeichnung d. Gr. ii. 719, M- Hi Svvin
night1—and of course the usual crop of moralising maxims. These
scattered hints have been put together with the utmost acumen by
R. Engelmann2, who supplements them from two important sources,
on the one hand Paestum and Campanian vase-paintings, on the
other hand the plays of Plautus.
I begin with the vases, since they are the earlier. A bell-^^'
found at Santa Agata dei Goti and now in the British Museum, was
painted by the ceramic artist Python (c. 320 B.C.3) with the following
Fig. 32
1 Eur.'k\Kiifyii frag. 104 (Trag. Gr. frag. p. 389 Nauck2) ap. Hesych.
1-
"VKTa- EuripideS'
- R. Engelmann in the Ann. d. Inst. 1872 xliv. :—18, id. Beitrage s" ^ragihf"
Alkmene Berlin 1882 pp. 1—20 with 2 figs., id. Archdologische Studien 2« den
Berlin 1900 pp. 52—63 with figs. 18, 19. jjapoli 185,7
3 On Python see G. Patroni La ceramica antica neW Italia meridionals ^ fuse"'
pp. 65—70 figs. 40 and 41, F. Mauser in Furtwiingler—Reichhold—Hause^^ jftcieft'
malerei iii. 60, Pfuhl Mahrei 11. Zeichnung d. Gr. ii. 719, M- Hi Svvin