The TROJAN WAR IMAGES

Indentification	Image	Description
Achilles
Caption: Ajax carrying Achilles Creator: Material: Date: Place made: Current Location:		Description: From the handle of the Francois Vase (just below Artemis) Ajax rescues the body of Achilles from the battle-field. This deed was not, however, enough to win him Achilles' armor. See the vote and the eventual suicide of Ajax below.
Caption: Achilles slaying Penthesilea Creator: Exekias Material: Black-figure neck amphora Date: c.530 BC 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.
Caption: The vote for the Arms of Achilles Creator: Douris Material: Red-figure cup Date: c.500-460 BC Place made: Athens (found at Cerveteri) Current Location: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3695		Description: The Greek heroes cast their votes with pebbles under the supervision of Athena. The figure at the left, presumably Ajax, expresses consternation. The interior of this cup shows the arms being given to Odysseus. The other side shows the conflict over the arms.
Caption: The strife for the Arms of Achilles Creator: Douris Material: Red-figure cup Date: c.500-460 BC Place made: Athens (found at Cerveteri) Current Location: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3695		Description: Ajax and Odysseus are restrained by their comrades as they fight over the arms of Achilles at the center of the picture. See the other side of this cup which shows the vote which settled the quarrel.
Caption: Peleus and Thetis, Parents to Achilles Creator: Material: red-figure cup Date: c. Place made: Athens Current Location:		Description: Pelus wrestles with Thetis, her ability to change shape is indicated by the lion biting Peleus' shoulder. Her startled companions carry fish to show that they come from the sea!
Agamemnon
Caption: The Death of Agamemnon Creator: Dokimasia Painter Material: Red-figure calyx krater Date: c. 470-460 BC Place Made: Athens Current Location: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 63.1246		Description: Aegisthus kills Agamemnon who is enveloped in some sort of fabric, blood is already pouring from a wound on his right side. The woman with the axe behind Aegisthus must be Clytemnestra, who plays only a secondary role in this version. The other side of this krater shows the next killing in the cycle: the death of Aegisthus at the hands of Orestes. In this scene again there is an axe-bearing woman behind the killer - either Clytemnestra coming to her lover's defence, as she wishes to do in the Oresteia, or Electra helping her brother. This vase painting corresponds to Aeschylus' Oresteia in the detail of the fabric used to trap Agamemnon but differs in assigning the major role to Aegisthus. The conventional dating of this vase (which can only ever be an approximation) places it before the production of the Oresteia in 456 BC. We may therefore be seeing a reflection of an earlier version of the myth.
Ajax
Caption: The Suicide of Ajax Creator: Exekias Material: Black-figure belly amphora Date: c. 530 BC Place Made: Athens Current Location: Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), Museum 558		Description: Ajax has set aside his arms and fixes his sword into the ground in preparation for his suicide. Note the intensity of the gaze which is comparable to the same painter's representation of Achilles and Penthesilea.
The Fall of Troy
Caption: The Sack of Troy Sack of Troy 2 (Death of Priam) Creator: The Kleophrades Painter Material: Red-figure Hydria Date: c. 480 BC Place Made: Athens (found at Nola) Current Location: Naples, Museo Nazionale 2422		Description: The painting which runs right around the shoulder of the vase brings together the most dramatic and poignant moments from the Fall of Troy. In the center, the Lesser Ajax prepares to drag the naked Cassandra away from the statue of Athena where she has sought refuge. Behind him, Aeneas carries his father, Anchises, away accompanied by his son, Ascanius. Behind the palm tree, in the center of the second slide, Priam is sitting on the altar with the body of his grandson, Astyanax, on his knees as Neoptolemos is about to kill him. On the far right of the second slide is the scene in which a Trojan woman attacks a Greek warrior with a pestle, just visible behind her is the rescue of Aithra, mother of Theseus, by her grandsons, Akamas and Demophon.