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Ancient Art Podcast Episode 6. One could easily pass by this muted, diminutive, unassuming
lekythos at the
Art Institute of Chicago, but in this episode we’ll closely examine it’s significant message and place it in the grander scheme of the newly refined aesthetic in late Archaic and Classical Athens. In exploring the narrative strategies of Attic vase painting, we’ll also take a hard look at a particularly exemplary black-figure amphora by the renown vase painter Exekias.