�@After conquering Corinthian pottery in the first half of the sixth century, Athenian pottery occupied the market of painted pottery over a century. In the later half of the fifth century, however, Greek colonies in South Italy and Sicily started the production of red figure pottery [1]. It is generally accepted that during the Peloponnesian War many Athenian potters and painters moved to there and opened new workshops[2].

After the rise of South Italian and Sicilian workshops, Athenian workshops lost the market in the west and needed to find new market at the Black Sea area. Workshops in Italy were opened at Lucania, Apulia, Campania, Paestum and Sicily, though after the mid fourth century Apulian workshops became more influential to other regions.