Achilles and Ajax playing dice Black Figure small Kylix Vase Etsy

Achilles and Ajax playing a board game. Side B of an Attic blackfigure neckamphora, ca. 530 BC

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Achilles and Ajax playing dice Etsy

reproduction The Vatican amphora depicts Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, with both men identified by their names added in the genitive. Ajax and Achilles sit across from each other, looking down at a block situated between them.

3.20 and 3.21 "Andokides Painter, Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice", c. 525520 BCE. Black figure

Amphora of Attic manufacture. Side A: Achilles and Ajax sitting playing dice. Side B: The family of the Dioscuri, with Castor holding the horse Kyllaros, Leda offering him a flower, Pollux playing with a dog and Tyndareus caressing the horse's muzzle. Dating 540-530 BC Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Room XIX Lower Hemicycle, Inv.

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The black-figure painting on this vessel shows the hero Ajax engaged in a board game involving the throwing of dice. He is playing against the hero Achilles, and the goddess Athena stands in the center of the picture, presiding over the dice throws that the two heroes make. Oil flask (lekythos) with Achilles, Ajax and Athena

Exekias, Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice

Board game can be viewed as a representation/microcosm/metaphor for personal rivalry between Achilles and Ajax. Other later vase paintings of the same subject suggest that Achilles and Ajax are neglecting their duties and irresponsibly play at a board game while the Trojans enter the Greek camp.

Achilles and Ajax playing dice Etsy

A conversation between Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker in front of an Attic black figure amphora by Exekias (potter and painter), archaic period, c. 540-530 B.C.E., 61.1 cm high, found Vulci (Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Vatican). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Questions Tips & Thanks Want to join the conversation? Sort by: Top Voted

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(a) Achilles and Ajax playing with pessi: On the right is Achilles seated on a block to left, bearded, with long tresses and short curls in front, high-crested helmet (raised), short embroidered chiton, striped… Producer name Attributed to: The Lysippides Painter Cultures/periods Attic Archaic Greek Production date 530BC (circa) (circa)

Achilles and Ajax playing dice Etsy

Achilles and Ajax, identified by inscriptions, like the other characters, are seated and playing dice; read out the points won, four and three respectively, as indicated by the inscriptions that emerge from their mouths as if in a comic strip. On the other side the family of the Dioskouri is depicted.

Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (detail from an Attic blackfigure amphora), from

A conversation between Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker in front of an Attic black figure amphora by Exekias (potter and painter), archaic period, c. 54.

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The Greek lettering on the vase shows ΑΧΙΛΛΥΣ over the head of Achilles and ΑΙΑΣ over the head of Ajax. In front of Achilles is a vertical inscription ΤΕΤΑΡΑΦΕΡΟ, meaning 'I have four', while the inscription in front of Ajax shows ΔΥΟΦΕΡΟ, meaning 'I have two'.

Attic blackfigure amphora signed by Exekias as both painter and potter, Achilles and Ajax

Achilles and Ajax playing dice (Amphora): Detail. Author: Exekias, fl 550-525 B.C. (Creator) Summary: Made and painted by Exekias. ; Height 61 cm. ; Located in the Vatican Gregorian Museum of Etruscan Art. Downloadable Visual Material, English, 20060613. Genre: 35mm Slide Still Image.

Achilles and Ajax playing dice Etsy

An overview of the design from this key example of black figure vase painting from Ancient Greece. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCewxZNUSJxo4ly.

Achilles and Ajax playing dice Etsy

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Achilles and Ajax, heroes of the Trojan War, break from battle to play a friendly game that hints at a tragic future. Exekias, Attic black figure amphora with Ajax and Achilles playing a game, c. 540-530 B.C.E., Archaic Period, 61.1 cm high, found in Vulci (Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Vatican)

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Achilles and Ajax playing dice Etsy

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Achilles and Ajax playing dice Etsy

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