Books written by Brian A. Sparkes

  • Greek Pottery: An Introduction
    Greek Pottery: An Introduction

    ... Oxford , 1986 . de Vries 1977 , de Vries , K. , ' Attic pottery in the Achaemenid Empire ' , AJA 81 ( 1977 ) 544-8 . ... Williams 1980 , Williams , D. , ' Ajax , Odysseus and the arms of Achilles ' , AK 23 ( 1980 ) 137-45 .

  • The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery
    The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery

    We can also compare the deeper, handled bowls where the silver product is so much more delicate than the clay, and mugs too where the silver is once again wafer thin (Gill 1986; Vickers and Gill 1994: 105—23; cf.

  • Pots and Pans of Classical Athens
    Pots and Pans of Classical Athens

    By linking the shapes of pots with their social functions, this book gives meaning to the ancient names, such as skyphos, olpe, kantharos, lekane, and hydria, that one encounters when visiting museums.

  • The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery
    The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery

    Beazley 1963: 296, 132; Carpenter 1989: 194. Photo credit: Museum. IV: 7 Athenian red-figure ... Beazley 1971: 344, 131 bis; Carpenter 1989: 194. Photo credit: Museum. ... London, British Museum, Greek and Roman Department B 424.

  • The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery
    The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery

    This volume also covers a hitherto neglected area: the history of the collecting of Greek pottery through the Renaissance and up to the present day.