Darius Painter

He most frequently depicted theatrical scenes, especially ones from the Classical tragedies by Euripides,[2] and mythological themes.

A number of mythological motifs not represented in surviving literary texts are known exclusively from his vases.

On other shapes, especially pelikes, he also painted as wedding scenes, erotes, women, and dionysiac motifs.

In contrast to other contemporary painters, sepulchral scenes (naiskos vases) by him are rare; where such motifs occur, they are virtually always on the back of the vessel.

He was the last important vase-painter in Apulia; Apulian vase painting rapidly declined in quality in the third century.