A collection of essays dedicated to the memory of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (1977-2007). The range of subjects reflects her broad circle of friends. Many are her contemporaries, but many are very senior scholars; ages range from 25 to 80. It is truly remarkable that someone who had not yet reached her thirtieth birthday could have come to know so many scholars and win their admiration and affection. Contents: Editorial foreword (Donna Kurtz); Biography of Eleni Hatzivassiliou (Donna Kurtz); Tribute (John Boardman); Guide to readers; The origins of Greek myth (John Boardman); Homer and the Solymians (J.J. Coulton); Sappho's sensual world (Thomas Brisart); An early archaic sphinx from the Polis Cave, Ithaka (Stavros 59)(Catherine Morgan); The riddle of the sphinx: a Protocorinthian vase from Perachora and the sphinx in Corinthian art (Catherine Cooper); A Middle Corinthian puzzle from Isthmia (K.W. Arafat); Athens versus Attika: local variations in funerary practices during the late seventh and early sixth century BC (Alexandra-Fani Alexandridou); A chorus of women ololyzousai on an early Attic skyphos (Nassi Malagardis); Dead warriors and their wounds on Athenian black-figure vases (David Saunders); Towers, pillars or frames? (Elizabeth Moignard); Nikosthenes looking east? Phialai in Six's and polychrome Six's technique (Athena Tsingarida); Some fictile biographies from Naukratis (Alan Johnston) The painter of Rhodes 13472: observations on a vase-painter of the Leagros Group (Anna A. Lemos); Kalypso's conifers? (Elke Br); Attic, Boeotian or Euboean? An orphan skyphos from Rhitsona revisited (Victoria Sabetai); Bird-women on the Harpy Monument from Xanthos, Lycia: sirens or harpies? (Catherine M. Draycott); The asses' lot (Louise Calder); The mounds associated with the Battle of Marathon in 490BC and the dating of Greek pottery (Chia-Lin Hsu) A wild goose chase? Geese and goddesses in classical Greece (Alexandra Villing); Prometheus Bound and Unbound: between art and drama (Dyfri Williams); Comedies on South Italian vases (Thomas Mannack); The Derveni Krater (Michalis Tiverios); Private sentiments in public spaces: two votive groups from Epidauros (Olympia Bobou); Cretan nymphs: an Attic hypothesis (Milena Melfi); A banquet relief from Thasos (Konstantina Panousi); Sosilos' statue and nudity in public honorific portrait statues in the Hellenistic period (Stella Skaltsa); Ouaphres Horou, an Egyptian priest of Isis from Demetrias (Maria Stamatopoulou); Piecing it together: the fragmentary Hellenistic vermiculatum mosaic from Tel Dor (William Wootton); Designing the landscapes of the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta (Manta Zarmakoupi); The quality of virtand Jose Nicolsss de Azara in Rome, 1766-1798 (Alexandra Sulzer); 'Poor architecture of antiquity, what is it doing in such a climate as this?' Classical archaeology and its influence on nineteenth-century London monuments (Kate Nichols); Doing business: two unpublished letters from Athenasios Rhousopoulos to Arthur Evans in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Yannis Galanakis); Early visitors to the site of the Perachoran Heraion (Thomas R. Patrick); Sappho (and Sophocles) at King's College London (Michael Trapp).

This volume publishes the Proceedings of an International Symposium held at the University of Brussels (ULB) in June 2008. Contributions discuss the role played by Greek pottery in trade networks and exchanges in the ancient Mediterranean world. Articles are grouped according to three topics, Trade and traders: value, transport and places of exchange; Markets and products: the markets of fine ware; markets and products: vase containers. Written by ancient historians, archaeologists and ceramic specialists, the papers build a bridge between different visions of ancient markets, and lead to constructive exchanges about the place of pottery within the wider context of ancient economy as well as that of social and cultural consumption preferences.