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- Bothmer, Dietrich von. "Aspects of a Collection," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27, June 1969. pp. 424-436. p. 427; fig. 11.; Bothmer, Dietrich von, and J. Bean. Greek Vases and Modern Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss. Exh. checklist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: 1969. p. 7, no. 87.; B0eazley, J. D. Paralipomena. Additions to Attic Black-figure Vase-painters and to Attic Red-figure Vase-painters. 2nd ed. Oxford: 1971. p. 367, no. 1 bis.; Shefton, Brian. "Agamemnon or Ajax," Revue Archeologique 24 (1973), pp. 203-218. fig. 1.; Davies, Mark I. "Ajax and Tekmessa. A Cup by the Brygos Painter in the Bareiss Collection," Antike Kunst 16, 1 (1973), pp. 60-70. pls. 9.1, and 10.; Boardman, John. Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period. London: 1975. fig. 246.; Williams, Dyfri. "Ajax, Odysseus, and the Arms of Achilles," Antike Kunst 23 (1980), pp. 137-145. p. 137, n. 5; pls. 33, 7 and 36.1-2.; Touchefeu, Odette. "Aias I," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (1981), pp. 312-336. pp. 325, no. 72, and 332, no. 140 (as L.69-11.35).; True, Marion, and Jiri Frel. Greek Vases. Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection. The J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu: 1983. pp. 44-45, no. 30, figs. 30a-c; p. 79, no. 152.; Burow, Johannes. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Tubingen 5 (Germany 54). Munich: 1986. Beilage 1, fig. 4.; Wescoat, Bonna D., ed. Poets and Heroes: Scenes of the Trojan War. Exh. cat, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology. Atlanta: 1986. pp. 52-57, no. 14.; Schefold, Karl. "Sophokles' Aias auf einer Lekythos," Antike Kunst 19 (1976). p. 72, n. 3.; "Acquisitions/1986." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 15 (1987), pp. 160 - 161, no. 7.; Beazley Addenda: Additional References to ABV, ARV2, and Paralipomena. 2nd ed. Compiled by T. Carpenter with T. Mannack and M. Mendonca. Oxford: 1989. p. 224.; Immerwahr, Henry. Attic Script. A Survey. Oxford and New York: 1990. p. 89, n. 37, no. 553; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 3rd ed. (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991), p. 47.; Williams, Dyfri. "Onesimos and the Getty Iliupersis," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 5. Occasional Papers on Antiquities 7 (1991), pp. 41-64. p. 44, and p. 63, n. 33.; Touchefeu-Meynier, Odette. "Odysseus," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VI (1992), pp. 943-970.; Robertson, Martin. The Art of Vase Painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge: 1992. p. 95; fig. 88 (wrongly cited as 81.AE.26).; March, J. R. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 38 (1991-1993), pp. 1-36. pp. 5-6; pl. 2a.; Shapiro, H. A. Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece. London and New York: 1994. p. 153, fig. 108, and p. 154, fig. 109.; Buxton, Richard. Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology. Cambridge: 1994 p. 126, fig. 14.; Buxton, Richard. La Grece de l'imaginaire. Les contextes de la mythologie. Paris: 1996. p. 189; fig. 14; Towne Markus, Elana. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Antiquities. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997) p. 40.; Moore, Mary B. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. The J. Paul Getty Museum 8 (USA 33). Malibu: 1998. p. 33-35, no. 49; fig. 13; pls. 418-420.; March, Jenny. Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology. London: 1998. p. 368, s.v. Tecmessa; fig. 136.; Brinkman, Vinzenz. "Aias der Telamonier," Der Torso, Ruhm und Raetsel (exh. cat.), Glyptotek Muenchen, January 21-March 29, 1998. Munich: 1998. Pp. 127-133. p. 132; fig. 194; Boardman, John. The History of Greek Vases. London: 2001. p. 243; fig. 268.; Hedreen, Guy. Capturing Troy: The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art. Ann Arbor: 2001. fig. 28, pp. 104-105, 107, 108, 110, 111, 115, 117, n. 92, 143, nn. 73,74, 178, 221, 224, 234.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 47.; Immerwahr, Henry. R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions. Preliminary Edition. Part VI: Supplement. 2001. no. 5015.; Tsingarida, Athena. "Soif d'emotions. La representation des sentiments dans la ceramique attique des VI et V siecles av. n. ere." Revue Belge de Philologie et D'Histoire 79. Brussels, 2001. p. 16, fig. 7.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002) p. 69.; Zwierlein, Otto. Hippolytus und Phaidra: Von Euripides bis D'Annunzio (Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh, 2005), pp. 26-27, abb. 5.; Sacks, David. Encyclopedia of the Anciet Greek World (New York: Facts on File, Inc, 2005) p. 17, illus.l; Neils, Jennifer. "The 'Unheroic' Corpse: Re-reading the Sarpedon Krater". In Athenian Potters and Painters, vol. 2. John H. Oakley and Olga Palagia, eds. (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2009) 212-219 p.215, fig.6 , He must not be seen! I will cover his body, I will wrap him completely in my mantle. No one who loved him could bear to see the dark blood pouring from his nostrils and the raw wound in his breast. So declared Tekmessa when she discovered the body of her dead lover Ajax in an Athenian tragedy by the playwright Sophokles. Ajax was one of the greatest of the Greek heroes in the Trojan War. The matter of his suicide was recounted in epic poetry now lost to us, but Athenian vase-painters in the early 400s B.C. frequently drew on this tradition in showing his death. The interior of this red-figure cup attributed to the Brygos Painter shows Ajax impaled on his sword and Tekmessa running to cover the body. In a unique representation of the suicide, the sword enters through his back rather than the more natural position through the stomach. Beneath Ajax, the Brygos Painter attempted to convey the texture of the pebble beach where Ajax went to die. The exterior of the cup presents the events leading to Ajax's suicide. When Achilles was killed, Ajax saved his body from the Trojans, expecting to be rewarded with Achilles' armor. However, Odysseus also claimed the armor. One side of this cup shows the two heroes quarreling; on the other side, the Greek leaders cast votes in the form of stones piled in front of the opponents. The despondent Ajax clutches his bowed head, having lost by one vote. --J. Paul Getty Museum; Bareiss Loan Number: S.82.AE.27
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- He must not be seen! I will cover his body, I will wrap him completely in my mantle. No one who loved him could bear to see the dark blood pouring from his nostrils and the raw wound in his breast. So declared Tekmessa when she discovered the body of her dead lover Ajax in an Athenian tragedy by the playwright Sophokles. Ajax was one of the greatest of the Greek heroes in the Trojan War. The matter of his suicide was recounted in epic poetry now lost to us, but Athenian vase-painters in the early 400s B.C. frequently drew on this tradition in showing his death. The interior of this red-figure cup attributed to the Brygos Painter shows Ajax impaled on his sword and Tekmessa running to cover the body. In a unique representation of the suicide, the sword enters through his back rather than the more natural position through the stomach. Beneath Ajax, the Brygos Painter attempted to convey the texture of the pebble beach where Ajax went to die. The exterior of the cup presents the events leading to Ajax's suicide. When Achilles was killed, Ajax saved his body from the Trojans, expecting to be rewarded with Achilles' armor. However, Odysseus also claimed the armor. One side of this cup shows the two heroes quarreling; on the other side, the Greek leaders cast votes in the form of stones piled in front of the opponents. The despondent Ajax clutches his bowed head, having lost by one vote. --J. Paul Getty Museum; Bareiss Loan Number: S.82.AE.27
43. Love-Making
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- Dorig, Jose, ed. Art Antique. Collections Privees de Suisse Romande. Exh, cat., Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneve. Editions archeologiques de l'Universite de Geneve: 1975. cat. no. 205; figs. 205a-e.; Buitron, Diana. Douris. Ph.D. diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: 1976. p. 48, no. 36.; "Acquisitions/1984." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 13 (1985), pp. 168-169, no. 19.; Kurtz, D. C. "Two Athenian White-ground Lekythoi," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum 4. Occasional Papers in Antiquities 5 (1989). pp. 113-130. figs. 1a-e; Immerwahr, Henry. Attic Script. A Survey. Oxford and New York: 1990. p. 85 (no cat. number); The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 3rd ed. (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991), p. 48.; Buitron-Oliver, Diana. Douris: A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases. Kerameus 9. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1995. pp. 18, 44, 51-53, 64-65, and 75, cat. no. 45; p. 95, fig. 6E; pls. 28-29.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 4th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), p. 47.; Towne Markus, Elana. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Antiquities. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997) p. 37.; Immerwahr, Henry. R. A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions. Preliminary Edition. Part VI: Supplement. 2001. no. 4978.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 47.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002) p. 70.; Cohen, Beth, ed. The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006) pp. 213-215, cat. no. 58, figs. 58.1-58.3.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 7th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 29, ill.; Green, Christopher, and Jens M. Daehner. Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Leger, and Picabia (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011) 46, 152, no. 6; pl. 8 , On the interior of this Athenian red-figure kylix or cup, a seated youth pulls his older male lover down toward him for a kiss. In Athenian aristocratic circles in the Archaic period, older men often courted youths. Such homosexual relationships were viewed as a key element in the socialization of youths, involving strong elements of mentoring as well as eroticism. The exterior of the cup depicts youths and bearded men training in various athletic activities, including the javelin, discus, and long jump. The youth in the long robe playing the flutes provides music for the training. Greek vases of the Archaic period frequently depict favorite pursuits of the aristocratic patrons who used the vessels; scenes of athletic training, another key element in the socialization of Athenian youths, are among the most common.--J.Paul Getty Museum
44. Symposium
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- Pottery: red-figured kylix (drinking-cup) showing boys serving wine. INTERIOR: komast. A bearded komast moves to the right with head turned back to left. He wears a chlamys over his upper arms and a red apicate fillet in his hair. He holds a cup back in his right hand and a knotty stick across his body in his left. Relief line for vertical strokes of fringe over forehead and for horizontal lines of hair tied up at back (relief line fringe for beard); dilute glaze line above and below eye. Preliminary sketch indicates that the chlamys was intended to be longer on the right. Border: alternating false maeander (twelve-stroke, alternately clockwise and anticlockwise) and blackened cross-square. EXTERIOR: symposium. Side A (lower): three banqueters on couches attended by two boys. On the couch on the left a bearded man reclines to the left, his head turned back to the right. He wears a himation over his left shoulder and around his waist and legs and a red apicate fillet in his hair. He rests against a folded cushion decorated with pairs of stripes, while he grips a cup in his left hand and holds out his right hand palm upward as if holding another. Above him hang two cups, seen from underneath, and a flat-bottomed oinochoe. His couch rests on a dais, the corner of which is visible on the left, and in front of it (ie. alongside) is a three-legged table on which are three red garlands. In front of the left hand end of the central couch stands a naked boy with a red fillet in his hair. He holds an oinochoe in his right hand and stretches out his left hand towards the symposiast on the central couch. Here a bearded man reclines to the left (cushion decorated with a pair of stripes and a stripe flanked by pairs of lines). He holds out a cup high in his right hand; his left hand is empty. He wears a himation in the same manner as the first symposiast, but has a thick reserved fillet (alternately vertical line and rows of dots at each bunching) in his hair. Above him and the boy hang two footless oinochoai and a cup seen from underneath. Alongside his couch is a three-legged table over which hang three red garlands. The couch on the right is seen in end view from the back. On it reclines a bearded man with a himation round his waist and a red apicate fillet in his hair. He is seen from the back, his left elbow resting on his cushion and his raised right knee splayed out to the right. He holds a cup up to his lips in his left hand and gestures with his right to the boy who stands between him and the central couch. Either side of the end of the couch project the ends of his striped cushion. Alongside the couch is a three-legged table, also seen from the end, the two legs in profile in the foreground, the third in back view beyond. The naked boy attendant who stands on the left of the couch, behind the table, has a frontal torso and left leg. His hair has a long straight fringe of relief lines over his neck. He holds an oinochoe in his left hand, tipped down so that the trefoil mouth is shown foreshortened. He gestures with his right hand as he looks at the symposiast. Above these two figures are two cups seen from underneath and a small foodess oinochoe. Side Β (upper): three couches and one boy attendant. The couch and its occupant on the left repeats the form of the central couch on side A, although the symposiast's himation has a line border and his cushion pairs of lines. As on the first couch on side A, the corner of the dais is visible. Above this couch hang two cups seen from underneath and a footed oinochoe. At the left hand end of the central couch stands a naked boy with a red hair-band, holding a small chytra in his right hand as he holds up his left hand. The bearded man on this couch repeats the scheme of the central couch on side A, save that here he holds a cup in his left hand and extends his right arm out towards the boy. From the fingers of his right hand hangs a red circlet. Above hang a footless oinochoe, a cup seen from underneath and a small chytra. The couch on the right is seen from behind, as on side A. The man here, however, holds a cup in his left hand as he leans on his left elbow, and his right hand is held out further to the left (no hair-band). The corner of the dais is visible and there is a three-legged table alongside the couch, but no attendant, nor are there any red garlands on the table and the cushion is plain. Above hang two cups seen from underneath and a small footless oinochoe. At either handle: floral complex with a circumscribed palmette either side of the handles and a large and a small palmette addorsed under the handles; spiral terminals and dots. Ground line: single reserved line. Graffiti under foot Relief line contours throughout (double for hair, except on AI); dilute glaze for minor interior markings; reserved line inside and outside lip; added red for inscriptions. --The British Museum, Williams, Dyfri, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 17, British Museum 9, London, BMP, 1993; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
47. Death of Prokris
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- Pottery: red-figured column-krater. (a) The death of Procris. Procris, in a short chiton which leaves her right shoulder bare, falls wounded to right, with her left hand and knee on raised ground with her right she vainly tries to pull out the spear which has pierced her beside the right breast; her head, en face, falls on her right shoulder, and her eyes are closed above her to the left, a Harpy (?) waiting for her soul. On the left, Kephalos with chlamys and petasos at back, resting right on a club, stands en face, looking on, beating his forehead with his left with a gesture of sorrow. His hound, which he holds by a cord round its neck, stands with nose raised, sniffing at Procris. On the right Erechtheus, the father of Procris, rushes forward, extending his right arm with a gesture of dismay; he is bearded and wreathed and has a mantle, and a sceptre along his left arm. (b) Three draped ephebi conversing: the central one looks to right, the two others staff in hand. Late stage of large style. Purple cord and ground-line. Brown inner marking and edge of hair. Eye in profile. On each side of each design, ivy pattern; above, tongue pattern; forming panel. Round the neck and on the upper surface of the lip, linked lotus-buds; round lip, ivy pattern; on the upper surface of each handle, a palmette. All these patterns black on red. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
48. Symposium
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- Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (wine-bowl). Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and purple; restored. Above, laurel-wreath; below each design, maeander and chequer. (a) Symposion: On a couch ornamented with wave-pattern and crosses recline two male figures to left; the one on the left has curly hair and beard, purple fillet and himation over lower limbs, left arm resting on a chequered pillow; he holds a kylix by the handle with right forefinger, as if playing cottabos. The other is beardless, with curly hair, a purple and a white fillet, and himation over lower limbs, right hand extended, left arm resting on a similar pillow; the mattress of the couch is embroidered. On the left is Eros hovering to right, holding out a chaplet of beads in both hands; before him is a cottabos-stand, painted purple. (b) Two ephebi confronted, with fillets and himatia over left shoulders; the one on the left holds out a strigil, the other has a staff in right hand. Between them is a stele, on which is a fruit; and above, an aryballos. --The British Museum, Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
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- A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893, Pottery: red-figured hydria. Depicted on this hydria is the rape of Kassandra by the lesser Ajax, son of Oileus, in Athena's temple at Troy. In the centre, the Trojan princess Kassandra kneels on the base of the statue of Athena, the Palladion. Her hair is loose and her drapery hangs from her left shoulder, leaving her upper body bare. She embraces the statue with both arms. An oinochoe lies below her on the base. Pallas Athena is portrayed wearing a peplos and carrying a shield on her left arm and a spear in her raised right hand. She wears an elaborate helmet to which feathers are attached. At the left, the Greek warrior Ajax seizes Kassandra by her hair. Ajax is nude except for a chlamys tied in front with a bulky, round brooch. On his head is a crested Corinthian helmet with added large feathers. His left foot is on the base of Athena's statue, and he raises a sword in his right hand. A phiale hangs above his head, part of the temple's ritual equipment. Two other phialai appear in the field to the right and left above the subordinate figures. To the right of the central group, the old priestess of Athena, Theano, with short white hair, runs away but looks back at the sacrilege about to occur. She still clutches the temple key in her left hand. Above her head, an owl, the sacred bird of Athena, flies carrying a wreath. At the far right a young girl in a peplos looks back as she turns to flee. At the left, above Ajax, a goddess is seated with a scepter in her left hand and a small round object in her extended right hand. It has been suggested that this is Aphrodite with the Apple of Discord, a reference to the origins of the Trojan War. Behind Ajax and much smaller in scale is another Greek warrior. He too wears a chlamys tied in front and an elaborate helmet, and he carries a shield and spear. This scene occupies the front of the hydria. Other parts are decorated with palmettes, volutes and stylized floral ornaments. An olive wreath with central rosette decorates the neck. The rim is decorated with a band of ovolo pattern, the shoulder with tongues. A band of wave-pattern runs under the central scene around the entire vase. --The British Museum
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- Pottery: red-figured hydria. Depicted on this hydria is the rape of Kassandra by the lesser Ajax, son of Oileus, in Athena's temple at Troy. In the centre, the Trojan princess Kassandra kneels on the base of the statue of Athena, the Palladion. Her hair is loose and her drapery hangs from her left shoulder, leaving her upper body bare. She embraces the statue with both arms. An oinochoe lies below her on the base. Pallas Athena is portrayed wearing a peplos and carrying a shield on her left arm and a spear in her raised right hand. She wears an elaborate helmet to which feathers are attached. At the left, the Greek warrior Ajax seizes Kassandra by her hair. Ajax is nude except for a chlamys tied in front with a bulky, round brooch. On his head is a crested Corinthian helmet with added large feathers. His left foot is on the base of Athena's statue, and he raises a sword in his right hand. A phiale hangs above his head, part of the temple's ritual equipment. Two other phialai appear in the field to the right and left above the subordinate figures. To the right of the central group, the old priestess of Athena, Theano, with short white hair, runs away but looks back at the sacrilege about to occur. She still clutches the temple key in her left hand. Above her head, an owl, the sacred bird of Athena, flies carrying a wreath. At the far right a young girl in a peplos looks back as she turns to flee. At the left, above Ajax, a goddess is seated with a scepter in her left hand and a small round object in her extended right hand. It has been suggested that this is Aphrodite with the Apple of Discord, a reference to the origins of the Trojan War. Behind Ajax and much smaller in scale is another Greek warrior. He too wears a chlamys tied in front and an elaborate helmet, and he carries a shield and spear. This scene occupies the front of the hydria. Other parts are decorated with palmettes, volutes and stylized floral ornaments. An olive wreath with central rosette decorates the neck. The rim is decorated with a band of ovolo pattern, the shoulder with tongues. A band of wave-pattern runs under the central scene around the entire vase. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893