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Exekias: Greek amphora depicting Achilles slaying Penthesilea Amphora, a storage jar used in ancient Greece. “Dionysus and the Maenads,” amphora by the Amasis Painter, c. 530 bc; in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris black-figure pottery Figure 4: Amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a board game, painted by Exekias, c. 550-540 BC. In the Vatican Museum. Height 61 cm. Exekias: amphora with Ajax and Achilles Hermes striding past the satyr Orcimachos, the Berlin amphora by the Berlin Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany. Etruscan amphora of bucchero ware Euthymides: Hector donning his breastplate perfume vase (amphoriskos)
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Exekias: Greek amphora depicting Achilles slaying Penthesilea
Amphora, a storage jar used in ancient Greece.
“Dionysus and the Maenads,” amphora by the Amasis Painter, c. 530 bc; in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris
black-figure pottery
Figure 4: Amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a board game, painted by Exekias, c. 550-540 BC. In the Vatican Museum. Height 61 cm.
Exekias: amphora with Ajax and Achilles
Hermes striding past the satyr Orcimachos, the Berlin amphora by the Berlin Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany.
Etruscan amphora of bucchero ware
Euthymides: Hector donning his breastplate
perfume vase (amphoriskos)
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“Dionysus Crossing the Sea,” interior of a kylix (shallow drinking cup) by Exekias, c. 535 bc; in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich
Exekias
Greek artist
Hermes striding past the satyr Orcimachos, the Berlin amphora by the Berlin Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany.
Berlin Painter
Greek artist
Theseus killing the Minotaur
Kleophrades Painter
Greek artist
Achilles Painter
Greek painter
“Dionysus and the Maenads,” amphora by the Amasis Painter, c. 530 bc; in the Cabinet des Médailles, Paris
Amasis Painter
Greek artist
Euthymides: Hector donning his breastplate
Euthymides
Athenian vase painter

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