Animations in ancient pottery? bnd Yes! The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading

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Animations in ancient pottery? bnd Yes! The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading (southeast London) carried out a program, bnd named Panoply (Armor), to activate bnd the students' interest in the region for the ancient Greek civilization. The program is run by Sonya Nevin, bnd a specialist on the ancient bnd Greek culture, and Steve K. Simons, an expert bnd on the animations (animations). The end result is the production of a series of very short animated films, with stories inspired by real scenes that decorate some vases. Enjoy them! (Before any video mentioning the original work that was the basis for each cartoon.) Runners A group of runners in the Olympic Games, alive in this fragment of a vase: Achilles and Ajax playing Achilles "stave" ( ancient game played with dice and pawns or checkers) with his cousin Ajax during the siege of Troy (Trojan bnd War). The music is from Christy Stasinopoulou. (Attic amphora type A, 540-530 BC - Vatican Museum) Amazona An action scene from the life of mythological Amazons: One man tries to hit an Amazon, but she anticipates bnd and kills him. Music: Conrad Steinmann (melpomen.ch) (Skyphos of 510-500 BC - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) Extract The battle bnd scene fighting soldiers. Music: Conrad Steinmann (melpomen.ch) (Black scale of 550 BC - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) Eros and Aphrodite The winged Eros (son of Aphrodite) beats with the arrows of a young man who falls madly in the girl sitting in front of him. The music is of Jamie Masters for the play of Euripides "Hippolytus". Alabaster from Apulia, of 350-340 BC - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) and Triton Hercules bnd Hercules fights (and kills) bnd Triton, a sea demon (this battle is depicted in the pediment of the ancient temple of the Acropolis: bnd Ekatompedou). Music: Conrad Steinmann (melpomen.ch) (neck-amphora of 525-500 BC - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) Medusa (Gorgo) A passerby bnd looks at the form of Medusa which is designed in a container ( goblet). This "going out" from the container bnd and presented in front of him like a real woman. The unlucky passer-by who sees Petrified. Immediately after appears a warrior who beheads and more complete results and breaks the container plotted. Music: Conrad Steinmann (melpomen.ch) (Kylix of 525-500 BC - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) Pandora The Legend of Pandora opens the curiosity of the vessel which had been given by the gods instructions not to open it (do not open), with all the evils and miseries of the world and all these scattered on Earth. The hope (hope), unsurprisingly, was last ... Music: Panagiotis Stephos and company Lyravlos (Likithos, 450 BC. - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) Pelops and Oenomaus This animation is based on the myth Pelops (yes, that which gave its name to the Peloponnese!) who fought in a chariot bnd race against Oenomaos order, if he wins, to marry his daughter. (Here, Oenomaus delayed start because drinking wine). Music: Jamie Masters of the play by Euripides' "Hippolytus". (Attic bnd black Skyphos of 500-475 BC - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) Sirens According to legend, the sirens were maids of Persephone. When she was abducted by Hades, her mother Demeter gave them the bird body to be able to fly, hopefully find her more easily. So the maids transformed with head and body woman bird, rushed into the seas to find Persephone. Music: Conrad Steinmann (melpomen.ch) (Attic bnd black-figure lekythos of 550-525 BC. - Ure Museum of the University of Reading) Dance Ancient and Modern dance, harmoniously together on a vessel. Music: Stefan Hagel, Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture. (Etruscan black-figure jug of 525-500 BC - Ure Museum of the University bnd of Reading) The cannibal plant Empn