Gardner, Percy: The principles of Greek art (London, 1924)

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PRINCIPLES OP GREEK ART

CHAP. XV

is impossible to say whether a vase-painting was meant to
represent the battles, the sacrifices, or the feasts of heroes of
mythology or of persons of everyday life. This last observation
may perhaps reassure us, since it shows that the principles of
vase-painting are the same whether mythical scenes or scenes
of every day be depicted. Of course in the latter case there is
more freedom, not unfrequently even humour; but the Greek
love of scheme and type prevails even in the representation
of genre scenes.

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