التوظيف الميثولوجي للأشكال المنفذة على الخزف الاغريقي

Abstract

The current research entitled (The Mythological Employment of Figures Executed on Greek Ceramics) comprises four chapters, the first chapter of which is devoted to explaining the research problem, which was presented and summarized in the possibility of answering the following question:

• Is there a mythological use of the shapes executed on Greek ceramics?

The first chapter also includes reference to the importance and need for research, as follows:

1- It adds an important aspect of the ideological thought prevailing in the Greek civilization.

2- Limiting the intellectual dimensions, including the mythological thought of the Greeks and the extent of the influence of these dimensions on ceramics as a Greek aesthetic achievement, by stopping at the artistic formulations (formalism) on both the form and the content.

This chapter also included the objective of the research to define:

• Learn about the mythological employment of figures executed on Greek ceramics.

It also included the limits of research by studying the Greek ceramics (bowls and vases of cups), which appeared in the Greeks within the extended period of time (between the seventh century BC and the third century BC).