Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
(Size, about 1 ∶ 9)
MEDEIA AMPHORA IN THE OLD PINAKOTHEK, MUNICH
(Vid. p. 145 ff.)
Πλὴν ὁ Σιμωνίδης τὴν μὲν ζωγραφίαν ποίησιν σιωπῶσαν προσαγορεύει,τὴν δὲ ποίησιν, ζωγραφίαν λαλοῦσαν· ἃς γὰρ οἱ ζωγράφοιπράξεις ὁς γινομένας δεικνύουσι, ταύτας οἱ λόγοι γεγενημένας διηγοῦνταικαὶ συγγράφουσιν.
Nec mirum, si ista, quae tamen in aliquo posita suntmotu, tantum in animis valent, cum pictura, tacens opuset habitus semper eiusdem, sic in intimos penetrat adfectus,ut ipsam vim dicendi nonnumquam superare videatur.
Although the archaeologists and mythologists constitutefor the most part the number of those seriouslyconcerned with Greek vases, there still remain manyengaged in the study of Greek literature for whom thevases are bound to possess an abiding value, since theyoften relate the stories that Homer, Pindar, Aischylos,and Euripides tell. One may find on vases of the four