Note 181 — Chapter V · CITIES AND PEOPLES (B) PEOPLES, RACES, TONGUES

Exekias—represented in the British Museum by his “Achilles and Penthesilea” (Ency. Brit., XI ed., article “Ceramics,” Plate I)—stands at the end of Black Figure as the master of the possibilities of refinement in it—on the verge of the style-change to Red Figure, yet apart from it. Sebastian Bach is his “contemporary.”—Tr.