From a Mycenaean cup of the 14th century B.C., through Villanovan urns, Etruscan bucchero, Corinthian, black-figure, red-figure, Campanian, Apulian, and Sicilian of the 3rd through 1st century B.C., here is a description and illustration of approximately sixty-five ancient Greek vases in the Elvehjem collection along with essays about the history of vase production and the use of the vase. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This volume in the Occasional Papers on Antiquities series includes analyses by Donna Kurtz and John Boardman of vase paintings depicting revelers associated with the poet Anakreon; a discussion by János Gy. Szilágyi of Etrusco-Corinthian vases; an examination by Martin Robertson of the Pan Painter; a commentary by Mario del Chiaro on a duck askat the Getty Museum; and Susan Matheson’s interpretation of an Iliupersis scene.