The Rover’s Return: A Literary Quotation on a Pot in Corinth

by J. Richard Green and Eric W. Handley

Hesperia, Volume 70, Issue 3
Page(s): 367-371
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3182068
Year: 2001
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ABSTRACT:

An extended graffito on a Hellenistic kantharos at Corinth seems to express a topos of greeting, quite likely in the form of a classic quotation from Euripides, just as we might quote Shakespeare today, whether or not we know the formal origin of the expression. The graffito forms another item of evidence for the currency of theater among many sections of Hellenistic society, not least in the context of the symposium.