In Etruria such models of oriental origin and influences from the Greek world, also a participant in the Orientalizing phenomenon, coexisted, in the years when the Homeric poems were being recorded and two worlds encountered each other. Together with an architecture, sculpture and painting of monumental character, is introduced alphabetic writing, a Phoenician invention, but in this case based on a model developed by the Greeks of Euboea. Depicts the scene of Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, with an inscription of the Greek word for cleverness/no-one. Etruscan civilization, at its magnificent beginnings, sees the birth of the urban phenomenon. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like A) Aristonothos Krater. Against a background of Phoenician expansion and Greek colonization prestige goods were introduced into the West along with ideas and wisdom deriving from Egypt, from the Aegean and the Near East. On the one side the blinding of the Polyphemus is shown, a sea battle with hoplites is painted on the other side. He is known from a signature on the so-called Aritsonothos Krater found in Caere Italy. BC) was a Greek Potter probably from Euboea. Thus the figured scene depicted on the crater might have acted as advice and warning regards the right use of wine. 730-580 B.C.), Etruria participated in a widespread cultural phenomenon that encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin: an extraordinary epoch that saw the displacement of people, the circulation of goods and of ideas, and the growth of wealth. Aristonothos Krater, Blinding of Polyphemus. The Aristonothos krater implies its usage in symposia where different ethnic groups could have been involved, shortly after the expansion of the Greeks westwards, in the frame of contacts among Greeks, Phoenicians and Etruscans. constructed partly in bedrock, stone, wood, and terracotta by the 6th and rebuilt to current form by 5th. Remains of Telesterion in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore. During the phase termed “Orientalizing” (ca. ceramic krater probably produced at pithekoussai but discovered at Etruscan site of Caere 675-650bc depicts odysseus and his men blinding cyclops polyphemus.
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