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1. CERAMICS. Greece.
François vase. Detail: the handle with representation of winged Animal Mistress (upper register), and Ajax carrying the dead Achilles (lower register).
Black-figured volute krater. Attic.
560 BCE.
Inv. No. 4209.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum. |
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2. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left; Ajax on the right, between them stands Athena.)
Black-figure neck-amphora. Attic.
Attributed to the Leagros Group Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 510 BCE.
Inv. No. 86.AE.81.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. |
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3. CERAMICS. Greece.
Tekmessa covering the corpse of Ajax.
Red-figured kylix (type B). Attic.
Attributed to Brygos Painter (active about 490—470 BCE).
Terracotta.
490—480 BCE.
Inv. No. 86.AE.286.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu. |
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4. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
The suicide of Ajax.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum. |
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5. CERAMICS. Greece.
Cassandra and Ajax.
Red-figure kylix. Attic, Athens.
Attributed to “The Codrus Painter”.
Ca. 440—430 BCE.
Inv. No. G 458.
Paris, Louvre Museum. |
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6. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Fall of Troy: Menelaus captures Helen; Ajax drags Cassandra away from the statue of Athene in the presence of Priam.
Fourth style. 50—79 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, House of Menander (I, 10, 4, wing). |
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7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Trojan slab (Tabula Iliaca).
Calcite.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 316.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Doves. |
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8. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Trojan slab (Tabula Iliaca).
Calcite.
1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 316.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Doves. |
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9. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left; Ajax on the right.)
Black-figure amphora (Type A). Attic.
By the Exekias Painter (potter and painter).
Clay. Ca. 530—520 BCE.
Inv. No. 16757.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum. |
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10. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left, Ajax on the right.)
Black-figure amphora (Type A). Attic.
By the Exekias Painter (potter and painter).
Clay. Ca. 530—520 BCE.
Inv. No. 16757.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum. |
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11. CERAMICS. Greece.
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
(Achilles on the left, Ajax on the right.)
Black-figure amphora (Type A). Attic.
By the Exekias Painter (potter and painter).
Clay. Ca. 540—530 BCE.
Inv. No. 16757.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum. |
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12. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Torso, called Belvedere.
Marble.
Work by Apollonios Athenian, son of Nestor.
Inv. No. 1192.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 26. |
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13. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Belvedere Torso.
Marble.
Greek copy of the 1st century BCE after a Greek original from the first half of the 2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 1192.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 26. |
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14. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Belvedere Torso.
Marble.
Greek copy of the 1st century BCE after a Greek original from the first half of the 2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 1192.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 26. |
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15. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Odysseus in the Underworld.
Johann Georg Hiltensperger (1806—1890).
Wall panel, 1845—1848.
No. LVII.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, The Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting, 57. |
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16. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Medea and Ajax.
Johann Georg Hiltensperger (1806—1890).
Wall panel, 1845—1848.
No. LXIX.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, The Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting, 69. |
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17. CERAMICS. Greece.
Ajax carrying the body of Achilles flanked by Scythian archers.
Black-figured neck-amphora. Attic.
Clay.
Ca. 510 BCE.
Sotheby’s Auction House, New York. |
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18. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
The duel between Eteocles and Polynices. (Variant: Death of Patroclus.)
Relief of the front of Etruscan cinerary urn.
Alabaster. 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 28136.
Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei. |
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