There is only one vase (Naples 2296 = Reinach, _Répertoire_, i. 476) on which the names of the Nereids are derived from Homer.
_Op. et Di._ 60 ff.; _Scut._ 345 ff., 178, 216; _Theog._ 820, 924 ff.
Vol. I. p. 472: see also below, p. 159. On the subject generally see Vogel, _Scenen Eur. Trag._; Huddilston, _Gk. Tragedy in Vase-paintings_; Engelmann, _Arch. Studien zu den Tragikern_.
See for further details of early theories Vol. I. p. 21.
_E.g._ the B.F. hydriae with water-drawing scenes; the funeral lekythi; and the R.F. cups with their subjects relating to banquets and revels.
Morgenthau, _Zusammenhang d. Bilder auf gr. Vasen_.
Cf. for instance E 39, 45, 47, 48, in B.M.
This subject has been admirably treated by Wickhoff in his _Roman Art_ (Eng. edn.), p. 13 ff.
The publication of this vase by Furtwaengler and Reichhold, _Gr. Vasenmalerei_, pls. 1–3, 11–13, with full discussion of subjects and technical details, has now superseded all previous illustrations. The only other complete ones were in _Mon. dell’ Inst._ iv. 54–8 (Reinach, i. p. 134–36) and _Wiener Vorl._ ii. pls. 1–5. The general view given in Plate XXVIII. is reproduced from the first-named work.
For the abbreviations used in the following notes see the Bibliography (Vol. I.).
Munich 125 = Reinach, ii. 120 = Furtwaengler and Reichhold, pl. 32; B.M. F 237: cf. also B.M. B 62.
The best and most complete examples are as follows:—B.F.: B.M. B 208; Reinach, i. 162 = Louvre E 732. R.F.: B.M. E 47, 469; Berlin 2293, 2531 (both in _Wiener Vorl._ i. pls. 8 and 5; the latter very good); Bibl. Nat. 573 = Reinach, ii. 256. Best of all (late R.F.), a grand vase found in Melos (_Monum. Grecs_, 1875, pt. 4, pls. 1–2 = _Wiener Vorl._ viii. 7), on which no less than eighteen deities are engaged, but none of the giants are named. Hera, Hephaistos, and Amphitrite are absent. Figs. 111 and 112 give two of these—E 732 in Louvre, and the interior of Berlin 2531.
_Bull. de Corr. Hell._ xx. (1896), pl. 7: cf. the archaic frieze of the Siphnian treasury at Delphi.
B.F.: B.M. B 147 (a very fine early example, but much restored), 244 (Fig. 113), 424; Berlin 1704 (also good). R.F.: B.M. E 15, E 410 (fine); Reinach, ii. 207.
Reinach in _Revue des Études Grecques_, 1901, p. 127, traces the subject to a Megarian origin.