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AMAZONS CENTAURS THE CYCLOPS GORGONS

HARPY SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS SIRENS the SPHINX

TYPHOEUS

Indentification Image Description

Amazons

Caption: Achilles slaying Penthesilea
Creator: Exekias
Material: Black-figure neck amphora
Date: c.530BC
Place Made: Athens
Current Location: London, British Museum B210 Description: Achilles plunges his spear into the kneeling Amazon, whose gender is indicated by her white flesh, note also her panther skin tunic. How much can we read into their intense exchange of looks?
The names of the two characters are painted onto the vase, and just to the left of Achilles is the artist's "signature": EXEKIAS EPOIESE (Exekias made [this])
THe same painter also depicted the Suicide of Ajax.

Centaurs

Caption: Centaur and Lapith
Creator: Made under the direction of Pheidias
Material: Marble
Date: c. 440BC
Place Made: Athens
Current Location: London, British Museum Description: One of a series of metopes from the south side of the Parthenon showing the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs. The same subject was depicted inside the temple on the sandals of the Athena Parthenos.

Caption: Centaurs and Lapiths
Creator:
Material: marble
Date: c. late 5th c BC
Place Made:
Current Location: London, British Museum Description: Frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae in Arcadia (Central Peloponnese). The frieze shows Greeks fighting Amazons and, as in this section, Lapiths fighting Centaurs. Here a Centaur bites into the neck of a Lapith who is stabbing him while another Centaur lies dead.

Caption: Centauromachy
Creator: Painted by Kleitias (the potter was Ergotimos)
Material: Black-figure volute krater
Date: c. 570 BC
Place made: Athens
Current Location: Florence, Museo Archeologico 4209 Description: A detail from one of the many mythological scenes on the "Fran㎜is Vase" (the feet above belong to a depiction of the young Athenian men and women led to Crete by Theseus). Note the different weapons used: the warriors fight with conventional "civilised" equipment while the centaurs use branches (not even clubs) and rocks.

Caption: Centaur with boulder
Creator: Kleophrades Painter
Material: Red-figure neck amphora
Date: c. 505-475 BC
Place made: Athens
s Current Location: Munich, 2316 Description: A lone centaur with a typical weapon.

AMAZONS	CENTAURS	THE CYCLOPS	GORGONS
HARPY	SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS	SIRENS	the SPHINX
TYPHOEUS

Indentification	Image	Description
Amazons
Caption: Achilles slaying Penthesilea Creator: Exekias Material: Black-figure neck amphora Date: c.530BC Place Made: Athens Current Location: London, British Museum B210		Description: Achilles plunges his spear into the kneeling Amazon, whose gender is indicated by her white flesh, note also her panther skin tunic. How much can we read into their intense exchange of looks? The names of the two characters are painted onto the vase, and just to the left of Achilles is the artist's "signature": EXEKIAS EPOIESE (Exekias made [this]) THe same painter also depicted the Suicide of Ajax.
Centaurs
Caption: Centaur and Lapith Creator: Made under the direction of Pheidias Material: Marble Date: c. 440BC Place Made: Athens Current Location: London, British Museum		Description: One of a series of metopes from the south side of the Parthenon showing the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs. The same subject was depicted inside the temple on the sandals of the Athena Parthenos.
Caption: Centaurs and Lapiths Creator: Material: marble Date: c. late 5th c BC Place Made: Current Location: London, British Museum		Description: Frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae in Arcadia (Central Peloponnese). The frieze shows Greeks fighting Amazons and, as in this section, Lapiths fighting Centaurs. Here a Centaur bites into the neck of a Lapith who is stabbing him while another Centaur lies dead.
Caption: Centauromachy Creator: Painted by Kleitias (the potter was Ergotimos) Material: Black-figure volute krater Date: c. 570 BC Place made: Athens Current Location: Florence, Museo Archeologico 4209		Description: A detail from one of the many mythological scenes on the "Fran㎜is Vase" (the feet above belong to a depiction of the young Athenian men and women led to Crete by Theseus). Note the different weapons used: the warriors fight with conventional "civilised" equipment while the centaurs use branches (not even clubs) and rocks.
Caption: Centaur with boulder Creator: Kleophrades Painter Material: Red-figure neck amphora Date: c. 505-475 BC Place made: Athens s Current Location: Munich, 2316		Description: A lone centaur with a typical weapon.