South Italian
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South Italian is a designation for ancient Greek pottery fabricated in Magna Graecia during the Fourth Century B.C. There are four regions which produced South Italian ware: Apulia, Lucania, Paestum, and Campania. These regions, in turn, had various workshops within them.
Apulian ware was almost all made in various workshops in Taras (Taranto). Lucanian ware was made in Heraklea and Metaponto. Paestan ware was all made in Poseidonia (Paestum). Campanian ware was made in Capua and Kyme (Cumae).
These fabrics were originally scions from the Attic workshops of Athens, when artists began to leave that city following the Pelloponesian Wars. The earliest workshops seem to have been founded in Lucania, and Apulia. Others were founded in Sicily, and then scions from the Sicilian workshops established those in Paestum and Campania.
South Italian ware illustrates many ancient Greek dramas and myths which are unknown in Mainland Greek pottery fabrics like those of Athens (Attic ware), Sparta (Laconian ware), and Corinth (Corinthian ware).
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South Italian Vase Painting by A.D. Trendall
Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily by A.D. Trendall
