In connection with the Los Angeles opening of the exhibition The Amasis Painter and His World, a colloquium and symposium were held at the Getty Museum between February 28 and March 2, 1986. An international panel of scholars presented papers on various aspects of Greek vase-painting; these papers are collected as fully annotated essays in the companion volume to the exhibition catalogue. They include an essay by Dietrich von Bothmer concerning the connoisseurship of Greek vases; an examination by Martin Robertson of the status of Attic vase-painting in the mid-sixth century; John Boardman’s discussion of Amasis and the implications of his name; Walter Burkert's presentation on Homer in the second half of the sixth century; and a paper by Albert Henrichs on representations of Dionysos in sixth-century Attic vase-painting.

• Director's Foreword
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• The State of Attic Vase-Painting in the Mid-Sixth Century
  Martin Robertson
• Narrative, Genre, and Realism in the Work of the Amasis Painter
  Andrew F. Stewart
• The Making of Homer in the Sixth Century B.C.: Rhapsodes versus Stesichoros
  Walter Burkert
• Reflections of Architecture in Sixth-Century Attic Vase-Painting
  John Griffiths Pedley
• Sculptor and Painter in Archaic Athens
  Brunilde S. Ridgway
• Myth Visualized: Dionysos and His Circle in Sixth-Century Attic Vase-Paintings
  Albert Henrichs
• Amasis and the Vase Trade
  Alan W. Johnston
• Amasis: The Implications of His Name
  John Boardman
• The Amasis Painter and Exekias: Approaches to Narrative
  Mary B. Moore
• The Amasis Painter: Artist and Tradition
  Joan R. Mertens
• Greek Vase-Paintings: Two Hundred Years of Connoisseurship
  Dietrich von Bothmer
• Index