{"id":9108,"date":"2023-01-25T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cig-icg.gr\/event\/lecture-by-jeffrey-banks\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:37:38","slug":"lecture-by-jeffrey-banks","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.cig-icg.gr\/el\/event\/lecture-by-jeffrey-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture by Jeffrey Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeffrey Banks (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Return of Achilles and the Cassandra Complex:<\/strong> An \u2018Iliadic\u2019 Reading of the Foundry Painter Name-Vase\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1835, excavators recovered a Late Archaic (490\u2013480 BCE) Attic Red-Figure type-B kylix from a tomb in Vulci, currently in the Berlin Antikensammlung <\/a>collection.  Studies of the vessel have focused on the scenes of a bronze foundry workshop decorating the exterior of the cup, which are used to reconstruct the style(s) of Late Archaic bronze statues and bronze casting technologies and techniques. The foundry scenes are so well-known in scholarship that Sir John Beazley used the \u201cBerlin Foundry Cup\u201d as the name-vase for his \u201cFoundry Painter\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far less attention has been paid to the interior tondo scene beyond the identification of the mythological narrative represented thereupon. The tondo scene is almost universally accepted as a representation of Hephaestus giving the newly smithed arms for Achilles to Thetis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this presentation, J. Banks reexamines the tondo scene on the Berlin Foundry Cup and the use of shield motifs by Archaic\u2013Early Classical Greek vase painters. Banks argues that the depiction of the famous mythological scene represents one of the more plausible instances on Greek pottery where a potter\u2019s familiarity with a \u201cliterary\u201d version of a mythic narrative can be demonstrated. It is posited that the Foundry Painter\u2019s original intention was to provide a key to interpreting the scene as an \u201cIliadic\u201d narrative, suggesting, in a single image, an incredible amount of narrative depth in an almost synoptic narrative manner, and referencing the Return of Achilles. A new reading of the tondo scene on the Berlin Foundry Cup impacts our understanding of shields and shield motifs painted on Greek pottery, their narrative potential in Greek figural art, and craftsperson\u2013viewer audience discourse.<\/p>\n\n\n

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