Potter's wheel
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
potter's wheel · whirling potter's wheel
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1 expressionthe potter's wheel1 mention
Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
"Anacharsis," he says, "invented the potter's wheel, by whose turning vessels are shaped.
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
A device for shaping vessels by turning, whose invention is disputed between Anacharsis and earlier unnamed origin.
"Anacharsis," he says, "invented the potter's wheel, by whose turning vessels are shaped.
Symposium
Object used for acrobatic entertainment, rejected by Socrates as unsuitable for the banquet.
Also, to write or read aloud on a whirling potter’s wheel may perhaps be something of a feat;
When they had finished, a potter’s wheel was brought in for the dancing girl on which she intended performing some feats of jugglery.