The Grecians are famous for their mythological interpretations of the natural world, tales fill with gods, heroes, and monsters are set to represent and educate the ethical beliefs of the country to its people. Tragic heroes are often at the core of these stories. According to Sophocles, “though nobles, [heroes] are swayed by emotions like pity, grief, love or desire for fame”1, this often lead to them through a journey to gain fame or to redeem themselves (Misra, pg.26). Often their journey is documented through oral storytelling, but as the Grecians became more advance in their artistic endeavors they also recorded these scenes on various potteries. The potteries were then display in symposia to be admired and to create conversations. The
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Once he got there, Ariadne; the princess of Crete, fell in love with him and helped him defeat the Minotaur by giving him magical yarns. As Theseus travels through the labyrinth, Theseus need to unravel the yarn so he could find his way back after defeating the Minotaur. At the center of the piece, Theseus can be seen in the middle of an action to let the audience know what is about to happen, his hand hold a knife and he is about to plunged it into the Minotaur, whom he hold down with his other hand. This makes the picture more dynamic and it stood in contrast to the linear figures of “sacrificial captives and planked around him”3 (Getty). Theseus is above while the Minotaur figure kneeled below him, which indicates his victory and triumph over the monster. The round jar make it advantageous to tell the story as a narrative because of its circularity, “a sequence of events is not integrated into a single picture”4 and the end of one scene can lead into another scene to create fluidity in the art piece (Junker pg.46). Since this is the climactic scene, this side is often display in the front so modern and ancient audiences will face this picture
Once he got there, Ariadne; the princess of Crete, fell in love with him and helped him defeat the Minotaur by giving him magical yarns. As Theseus travels through the labyrinth, Theseus need to unravel the yarn so he could find his way back after defeating the Minotaur. At the center of the piece, Theseus can be seen in the middle of an action to let the audience know what is about to happen, his hand hold a knife and he is about to plunged it into the Minotaur, whom he hold down with his other hand. This makes the picture more dynamic and it stood in contrast to the linear figures of “sacrificial captives and planked around him”3 (Getty). Theseus is above while the Minotaur figure kneeled below him, which indicates his victory and triumph over the monster. The round jar make it advantageous to tell the story as a narrative because of its circularity, “a sequence of events is not integrated into a single picture”4 and the end of one scene can lead into another scene to create fluidity in the art piece (Junker pg.46). Since this is the climactic scene, this side is often display in the front so modern and ancient audiences will face this picture