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International audience; From the floral epiphanies to the flowering bushes of Magna Graecia and Sicily. A journey through the vegetal ornaments red-figured and overpainted ceramics · Vegetal decoration in the figured productions of pre-Roman Italy was one of the many topics that attracted Enzo Lippolis’ attention. In the Classical and Hellenistic period it contributed to creating connections between the figurative tradition of the great centres of the Mediterranean, mobilizing diπerent forms of crafts and defining the language of a koiné marked by the transfer of decorative patterns and the mobility of artisans. Among the many research trajectories he opened up, we have chosen to analyze the floral epiphanies and blossoming bushes that flourished on red-figured and overpainted vases of the4th and 3rd centuries BC, which lead us from Magna Graecia to Sicily. It is by seeking to unravel the tangle of the intertwined stems on a batch of fragments from Megara Hyblaea that we have been able to ascertain the path of Apulian inspiration from eastern Sicily back to the productions of Taranto.

This thesis deals with ancient string and percussion instruments with additional focus on a hydraulic organ, an instrument that is difficult to categorize. The first part of the thesis is a follow-up to the bachelor thesis Wind Instruments of Ancient Greece and Rome, which is devoted to wind instruments, and deals with the classification, description and evolution of the instruments of the other two instrumental groups. This is illustrated on the background of literary, archaeological and iconographic sources, especially on the vase painting. Vase painting well demonstrates the shape, evolution and regional occurrence of these instruments. In the second part of this thesis the Attic and southern Italy vase paintings will be used to compare musical culture in both of these areas. In Attic music scenes the chronological evolution of depicted instruments is examined, while in southern Italian scenes we will concentrate on the differences of depicted instruments in the regions of Campania, Lucania, Sicily, Paestum and Apulia. Finally, the Attic musical instruments are compared with the instruments of southern Italy. The results of the analyses will be entered into graphs. Keywords: ancient music, strings instruments, percussion instruments, Greece, Southern Italy, Campania, Lucania, Apulia, Sicily,...