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41. Achilles and Odysseus

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

42. Achilles and Odysseus

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

43. Embassy

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

44. Athena in Battle with Giant (or) Achilles and Pentesileia

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

45. Oedipus

Description: Photograph from the personal collection of Dr. Steven Lowenstam (1945-2003), Department of Classics, University of Oregon.

46. Leda and Swan

Description: The excessive mourning of the mythological figure Niobe decorates this Apulian red-figure loutrophoros. Niobe's foolish boasting led to the slaughter of her fourteen children by the gods Apollo and Artemis. For nine days and nights, she mourned, ignoring family members' attempts to comfort her. Finally, Zeus took pity on Niobe's grief and turned her to stone. On this vase, Niobe stands in a funerary naiskos surrounded by four attendants holding grave offerings. Her brother Pelops drives up in his chariot with his bride Hippodameia to urge her to stop grieving. By painting the lower part of her dress white, the painter indicated Niobe slowly turning to stone from the feet up. The back of the vase also depicts a funerary naiskos flanked by attendants and containing a large funerary lekythos. Both the structure and the vessel are painted white to represent stone. Loutrophoroi, made of both terracotta and marble, were placed as markers on the graves of the unwed. In the scene on the front, two loutrophoroi flank Niobe. The one on the right with figural decoration is the same form as this vase. As these painted depictions show, this terracotta loutrophoros would originally have been placed on a stand. --The J. Paul Getty Museum, "Acquisitions/1986." The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 15 (1987), pp. 163 - 164, no. 17.; Simon, Erika. "Eirene und Pax. Friedensgottinen in der Antike," Sitzingsberichte der Wissenshaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, 24,3 (1988), p. 68. pl. 7 (detail).; Schauenburg, Konrad. "Zur Grabsymbolik apulischen Vasen," Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts 104 (1989), pp. 19-60. pp. 46-47; figs. 31-32.; Trendall, Arthur Dale. The Red-figured Vases of South Italy and Sicily. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989. pp. 85-86; fig. 184.; Hofstetter, Eva. Sirenem im archaischen und klassischen Griechenland. Wurzburg: 1990. p. 268, ff. passim, no. W 45; pl. 29, 1; Jentoft-Nilsen, Marit R., and Arthur Dale Trendall. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. J. Paul Getty Museum 4 (USA 27). Malibu: 1991. Pp. 6-9; fig. 3; pls. 186-188; 189, 3-5.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 3rd ed. (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991), p. 53.; Trendall, Arthur Dale, and Alexander Cambitoglou. Second Supplement to The Red-figured Vases of Apulia (Supplement to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London, 60). London: 1991-1992. pp. 180-181, no. 20/278-2.; Kahil, Lily, and Noelle Icard-Gianolio. "Leda," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VI (1992), pp. 231-246. p. 233, no. 17; pls. 110, 111.; Aellen, Christian. A la Recherche de l'Ordre Cosmique. Forme et Fonction des Personifications dans la Ceramique Italiote. Zurich: 1994. p. 212, cat. no. 85; pp. 21, 30, 94, 99, 104-105, 120, 130, 139-140, 142-143, 146, 150, 156-158, 182, 191-192; pls. 101-104.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 4th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), p. 55.; Kossatz-Deissmann, Anneliese. "Eniautos," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VIII (1997), p. 573. pl. 361; Kossatz-Deissmann, Anneliese. "Astrape," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VIII (1997), pp. 535-536. no. 5; pl. 349; Bazant, Jan. "Hypnos," Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae VIII (1997), pp. 643-645. p. 644, no. 2; Towne Markus, Elana. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Antiquities. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997) pp. 72, 93.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), p. 55.; Tsiafakis, Despoina. "Life and Death at the Hands of a Siren," Studia Varia from the J. Paul Getty Museum 2. Occasional Papers on Antiquities 10 (2001), pp. 7-24. p. 12; fig. 4.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Antiquities Collection (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002) p. 124.; Stafford, Emma. "Brother, Son, Friend, and Healer: Sleep the God." In Sleep. Thomas Wiedemann and Ken Dowden, eds. (Bari: Levante Editori, 2003) pp. 85-88, figs. 9a-9c.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth, fourth edition (New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc, 2004) pp. 515-516, fig. 19.2.; Parker, Robert. Polytheism and Saociety at Athens (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) pp. 337, 339, fig. 26.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth, fifth edition (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007), p. 534, fig. 19.2.; The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections. 7th ed. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007), p. 36, ill.; Taplin, Oliver. Pots & Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-Painting in the Fourth Century B.C. (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007) , pp. 229-230, ills.; Kostouros, George. A Narrative of the Nemean Games (Nemea: George Kostouros, 2008) , p. 332, fig. 416.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth (Madison: Pearson Longman, 2009) pg.509, fig.19.2; Blamberger, Gunter and Boschung, Dietrich. Morphomata Kulturelle Figurationen: Genese, Dynamik und Medialitat (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2011), p. 59, 208-209, 211, 216, figs. 5-7,9,12. Pg. 216 also features an image of the vessel.; Stansbury-O'Donnell, Mark D. Looking at Greek Art (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp.13, 32,43,129,179,213, figs.9,15,20,48,66,82.; Powell, Barry B. Classical Myth, 7e... Textbook and e-book slated for September 2013; more information forthcoming.