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1. Achilles and Ajax

Achilles and Ajax

Description: Scenes from the mythological Trojan War decorate this Athenian black-figure neck-amphora. On the front, Achilles and Ajax, two great heroes of the Greeks, sit playing a board game. The goddess Athena stands in front of the board and gestures. The warriors have their armor and weapons ready, as if just pausing during a break in the conflict. This scene of Ajax and Achilles gaming was very popular in Athenian vase-painting of the late 500s B.C. and was a favorite of the painters in the Leagros Group. Many scholars believe that this mythological scene also served as a contemporary political parable on the value of staying alert, since the tyrant Peisistratos had been able to take control of the city of Athens while the army was distracted. The back of the vase depicts three hoplites, or warriors, in a line. Such files of hoplites are rather unusual in vase-painting, and this depiction may have been meant to relate to the scene on the front of the vase. These hoplites may be Greeks on the march to counter a Trojan attack, while Ajax and Achilles are notified by Athena. Such an interpretation would explain Athena's unusually prominent position on this rendition of the scene. --J. Paul Getty Museum; Bareiss Loan: S.80.AE.292, May, Helmut, ed. Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat. (Cologne: Kunsthalle Köln, 1968), cat. no. A 24.; 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. 2, no. 19.; Brommer, Frank. Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage. 3rd ed. (Marburg: 1973) p. 335, no. 23.; Woodford, Susan.

2. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

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

3. Hermes

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Anacreon type. A bearded reveller walking to right, wreathed in ivy and playing on the chelys: his head hangs forward to left, with eyes upturned as if partly drunk. The nose is curiously squat and broad, like that of a bearded satyr. His mantle flies back with the motion; and he has a staff under his left shoulder. (b) Ephebos, wreathed, walking to right, holding in his right hand horizontally a crutch staff, and extending his left on a level with his shoulder, holding on the palm upright a kylix: a mantle, rolled up, flies back from both arms. Extremities carefully drawn. Purple wreaths, tuning pegs, and cord of plectrum. Elaborate brown inner markings: the beard and the edge of the hair in a are indicated throughout in carefully traced-brown lines, which are also used for the knuckles of the bent hand and nostril in b and the hair on the cheek. Eye in archaic type, with inner angle open. Edge of hair dotted: and a dotted rosette for the left breast. Below a, a strip, alternate maeander and dotted cross squares: below b, a strip of key pattern. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

4. Warrior

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Departure of warrior. Young warrior with long hair, short chiton with studded sleeves, mantle at back over arms, decorated with crosses, crestless helmet tilted back, cuirass, greaves, sword with twisted snake round scabbard hanging from a cross-belt, stands en face, looking to right, with shield on left arm, left hand holding spear upright, right holding out phiale to left towards (b) A woman in undertied chiton with apoptygma, with long hair fastened at ends in a club, radiated stephane, earrings, moves to right with oinochoe (silhouette against body), and raising the left edge of her dress from her shoulder, towards an altar in form of Ionic capital with volutes and necking of acanthus, on which is placed a high thymiaterion with wire cap, forming an acorn-shaped head (καλύπτρα), probably perforated. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, edge of hair, and hair on cheek: also toe-nails of the foot en face. Eye archaic. Below, a strip of pattern, alternate dotted cross and maeander. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

5. Animals

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

6. Arming

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

7. Athena

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Hermes, bearded, wreathed, with hair in long single tresses, short sleeved chiton, chlamys, petasos at back, endromides of skin (surface covered with minute dots) with crescent-form flaps, moves to right looking back, extending to right his left hand, holding caduceus, with index finger extended, apparently beckoning. (b) Athene in long sleeved chiton, mantle fastened on left shoulder and hanging in pteryges, aegis with fringe of spiral snakes on lower edge, and dotted surface, bracelets, her hair hanging loose with a fillet wound twice round it, holding spear across her body in left, and extending a high crested helmet held by cheek-piece in right, moves to left, looking back; her left foot in foreshortening, her body en face. The aegis is short in front, but at the back hangs down below the waist. Late stage of large severe style. Purple wreath, cord of petasos, and bracelets. Brown inner details, upper folds of chiton, necklace, and hair over forehead. Eye in transition type (inner angle open). Below each side, a strip of pattern, pairs of maeanders set alternate ways, separated by dotted cross squares. At lower insertion of handles, egg pattern. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

8. Warrior

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Departure of warrior. Young warrior with long hair, short chiton with studded sleeves, mantle at back over arms, decorated with crosses, crestless helmet tilted back, cuirass, greaves, sword with twisted snake round scabbard hanging from a cross-belt, stands en face, looking to right, with shield on left arm, left hand holding spear upright, right holding out phiale to left towards (b) A woman in undertied chiton with apoptygma, with long hair fastened at ends in a club, radiated stephane, earrings, moves to right with oinochoe (silhouette against body), and raising the left edge of her dress from her shoulder, towards an altar in form of Ionic capital with volutes and necking of acanthus, on which is placed a high thymiaterion with wire cap, forming an acorn-shaped head (καλύπτρα), probably perforated. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, edge of hair, and hair on cheek: also toe-nails of the foot en face. Eye archaic. Below, a strip of pattern, alternate dotted cross and maeander. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

9. Peleus gives Achilles to Cheiron

Peleus gives Achilles to Cheiron

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

10. Departing Warrior

Departing Warrior

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Departure of warrior. Young warrior with long hair, short chiton with studded sleeves, mantle at back over arms, decorated with crosses, crestless helmet tilted back, cuirass, greaves, sword with twisted snake round scabbard hanging from a cross-belt, stands en face, looking to right, with shield on left arm, left hand holding spear upright, right holding out phiale to left towards (b) A woman in undertied chiton with apoptygma, with long hair fastened at ends in a club, radiated stephane, earrings, moves to right with oinochoe (silhouette against body), and raising the left edge of her dress from her shoulder, towards an altar in form of Ionic capital with volutes and necking of acanthus, on which is placed a high thymiaterion with wire cap, forming an acorn-shaped head (καλύπτρα), probably perforated. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, edge of hair, and hair on cheek: also toe-nails of the foot en face. Eye archaic. Below, a strip of pattern, alternate dotted cross and maeander. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

11. Odysseus and Phaiakions

Odysseus and Phaiakions

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

12. Odysseus and Phaiakions

Odysseus and Phaiakions

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

13. τιότνια Ҩηρŵν

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

14. Ajax carries Achilles

Ajax carries Achilles

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

15. Aias carries Achilles

Aias carries Achilles

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

16. Phaiakions

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

17. Aias carries Achilles

Aias carries Achilles

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

18. Eros

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

19. Aias carries Achilles

Aias carries Achilles

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

20. Achilles and Ajax

Achilles and Ajax

Description: Scenes from the mythological Trojan War decorate this Athenian black-figure neck-amphora. On the front, Achilles and Ajax, two great heroes of the Greeks, sit playing a board game. The goddess Athena stands in front of the board and gestures. The warriors have their armor and weapons ready, as if just pausing during a break in the conflict. This scene of Ajax and Achilles gaming was very popular in Athenian vase-painting of the late 500s B.C. and was a favorite of the painters in the Leagros Group. Many scholars believe that this mythological scene also served as a contemporary political parable on the value of staying alert, since the tyrant Peisistratos had been able to take control of the city of Athens while the army was distracted. The back of the vase depicts three hoplites, or warriors, in a line. Such files of hoplites are rather unusual in vase-painting, and this depiction may have been meant to relate to the scene on the front of the vase. These hoplites may be Greeks on the march to counter a Trojan attack, while Ajax and Achilles are notified by Athena. Such an interpretation would explain Athena's unusually prominent position on this rendition of the scene. --J. Paul Getty Museum; Bareiss Loan: S.80.AE.292, May, Helmut, ed. Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat. (Cologne: Kunsthalle Köln, 1968), cat. no. A 24.; 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. 2, no. 19.; Brommer, Frank. Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage. 3rd ed. (Marburg: 1973) p. 335, no. 23.; Woodford, Susan.

21. Odysseus and Phaiakions

Odysseus and Phaiakions

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

22. Woman and departing warrior (left)

Woman and departing warrior (left)

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Departure of warrior. Young warrior with long hair, short chiton with studded sleeves, mantle at back over arms, decorated with crosses, crestless helmet tilted back, cuirass, greaves, sword with twisted snake round scabbard hanging from a cross-belt, stands en face, looking to right, with shield on left arm, left hand holding spear upright, right holding out phiale to left towards (b) A woman in undertied chiton with apoptygma, with long hair fastened at ends in a club, radiated stephane, earrings, moves to right with oinochoe (silhouette against body), and raising the left edge of her dress from her shoulder, towards an altar in form of Ionic capital with volutes and necking of acanthus, on which is placed a high thymiaterion with wire cap, forming an acorn-shaped head (καλύπτρα), probably perforated. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, edge of hair, and hair on cheek: also toe-nails of the foot en face. Eye archaic. Below, a strip of pattern, alternate dotted cross and maeander. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

23. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

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

24. Achilles receives arms

Achilles receives arms

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

25. The Judgment of Paris

The Judgment of Paris

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

26. Achilles plays with Aias

Achilles plays with Aias

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

27. Departing Warrior and Hermes

Departing Warrior and Hermes

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

28. Aeneas carries Anchises

Aeneas carries Anchises

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

29. The Judgment of Paris

The Judgment of Paris

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. On the neck the usual double palmette pattern, but on a white ground. (a) On the shoulder: Lion to right and goat confronted, twice. On the body, Peleus seizing Thetis: Peleus to right, bearded, with short embroidered chiton, seizes Thetis round waist with left hand, and with right grasps her clothing. Thetis moves to right looking to left, with long hair, laurel-wreath, long embroidered chiton, and himation, right arm round Peleus' body; two of her transformations are indicated by the lion's head issuing from her left shoulder with open jaws and flowing mane, and by the panther which has leapt upon Peleus from behind, with its forepaws on his shoulder. On the right is a Siren to left; on the left, a similar figure to right, with a bearded male head, and flesh painted white (an almost unique exception to the usual rule); both have long hair wreathed with myrtle, and their bodies are formed by large eyes, with black pupils surrounded by purple and white rings, and black outlines, the ground being left red (b) On the shoulder, lion to right confronting goat, twice. On the body, Apollo Citharoedos to right; he is beardless, with long hair, tresses in front of ears, fillet, long chiton and embroidered himation, and holds the plectrum in right hand; from his chelys hangs drapery. By his side is a hind to right; on either side bird-figures with human heads and bodies formed by eyes, as on (a). Under the handles: (i) Hermes moving to right, looking back; he is bearded, with hair looped up under a fillet, short chiton, embroidered chlamys, petasos, endromides, and caduceus; in his right hand he also holds ivy-branches; (2) Artemis moving to left looking back, with long tresses, mitra, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, and bow raised in left hand; in the field, ivy-branches. Below, frieze of animals: Panther to right confronting goat, twice repeated; lion and panther confronted, between them a goat to left. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929

30. Thetis and Peleus

Thetis and Peleus

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. On the neck the usual double palmette pattern, but on a white ground. (a) On the shoulder: Lion to right and goat confronted, twice. On the body, Peleus seizing Thetis: Peleus to right, bearded, with short embroidered chiton, seizes Thetis round waist with left hand, and with right grasps her clothing. Thetis moves to right looking to left, with long hair, laurel-wreath, long embroidered chiton, and himation, right arm round Peleus' body; two of her transformations are indicated by the lion's head issuing from her left shoulder with open jaws and flowing mane, and by the panther which has leapt upon Peleus from behind, with its forepaws on his shoulder. On the right is a Siren to left; on the left, a similar figure to right, with a bearded male head, and flesh painted white (an almost unique exception to the usual rule); both have long hair wreathed with myrtle, and their bodies are formed by large eyes, with black pupils surrounded by purple and white rings, and black outlines, the ground being left red (b) On the shoulder, lion to right confronting goat, twice. On the body, Apollo Citharoedos to right; he is beardless, with long hair, tresses in front of ears, fillet, long chiton and embroidered himation, and holds the plectrum in right hand; from his chelys hangs drapery. By his side is a hind to right; on either side bird-figures with human heads and bodies formed by eyes, as on (a). Under the handles: (i) Hermes moving to right, looking back; he is bearded, with hair looped up under a fillet, short chiton, embroidered chlamys, petasos, endromides, and caduceus; in his right hand he also holds ivy-branches; (2) Artemis moving to left looking back, with long tresses, mitra, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, and bow raised in left hand; in the field, ivy-branches. Below, frieze of animals: Panther to right confronting goat, twice repeated; lion and panther confronted, between them a goat to left. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929

31. Peleus and Thetis

Peleus and Thetis

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. On the neck the usual double palmette pattern, but on a white ground. (a) On the shoulder: Lion to right and goat confronted, twice. On the body, Peleus seizing Thetis: Peleus to right, bearded, with short embroidered chiton, seizes Thetis round waist with left hand, and with right grasps her clothing. Thetis moves to right looking to left, with long hair, laurel-wreath, long embroidered chiton, and himation, right arm round Peleus' body; two of her transformations are indicated by the lion's head issuing from her left shoulder with open jaws and flowing mane, and by the panther which has leapt upon Peleus from behind, with its forepaws on his shoulder. On the right is a Siren to left; on the left, a similar figure to right, with a bearded male head, and flesh painted white (an almost unique exception to the usual rule); both have long hair wreathed with myrtle, and their bodies are formed by large eyes, with black pupils surrounded by purple and white rings, and black outlines, the ground being left red (b) On the shoulder, lion to right confronting goat, twice. On the body, Apollo Citharoedos to right; he is beardless, with long hair, tresses in front of ears, fillet, long chiton and embroidered himation, and holds the plectrum in right hand; from his chelys hangs drapery. By his side is a hind to right; on either side bird-figures with human heads and bodies formed by eyes, as on (a). Under the handles: (i) Hermes moving to right, looking back; he is bearded, with hair looped up under a fillet, short chiton, embroidered chlamys, petasos, endromides, and caduceus; in his right hand he also holds ivy-branches; (2) Artemis moving to left looking back, with long tresses, mitra, long chiton and himation, both embroidered, and bow raised in left hand; in the field, ivy-branches. Below, frieze of animals: Panther to right confronting goat, twice repeated; lion and panther confronted, between them a goat to left. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929

32. Arming

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. (a) Warrior arming: In the centre is the warrior stooping to right, nude and bearded, placing a greave on left leg; before him is his high-crested helmet. Facing him is a female figure with long tresses, and long chiton and himation, both embroidered, holding his spear and Boeotian shield on which is a panther's head between two snakes. Behind her is an archer to left, bearded, with high peaked cap, short chiton, quiver at side, and bow in left hand. On the left is an old man to right, with white beard and hair, and long chiton and himation, both embroidered, in left hand a staff; behind him an archer to right, as the former, bow and quiver at side, left hand raised. (b) Acamas and Demophon conducting Aethra: In the centre is Aethra between them, all three to right; she has a long embroidered chiton, and embroidered himation drawn over her head. Demophon, on the right, is looking back at her; he and Acamas both have short chitons, visored helmets, cuirasses, and greaves, and are bearded; the latter has a high-crested helmet, sword drawn in right hand, and embroidered chlamys. On the right is a youth to left, with long chiton and embroidered himation; behind him an old man to right, with white beard and hair, in long chiton and striped himation. On the left an old man to right, as the last, with long white tresses; each of these three has a staff in right hand. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929

33. Destruction of Troy

Destruction of Troy

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

34. Destruction of Troy

Destruction of Troy

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

35. Battle

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

36. Herakles, Andromache, Ponforiste, Timiades, Telaman, Ainape

Herakles, Andromache, Ponforiste, Timiades, Telaman, Ainape

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

37. Libating to Athene

Libating to Athene

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

38. Death of Priam

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

39. Medea

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

40. Menelaos chasing Helen

Menelaos chasing Helen

Description: Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930, Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Type of Menelaus pursuing Helen. Warrior with drawn sword pursuing a woman. He is bearded, wreathed, nude, with petasos hanging by cord at back, chlamys as shield on left arm, scabbard at waist, with brown snake ornament twisted round it, and rushes to right with a drawn sword in his right hand; the woman in chiton, himation, bracelets, earrings, and a radiated stephane, looks back, extending her right with a gesture of entreaty; with her left she raises the edge of her skirt. Between the figures, ΔΙΟΝΟΚΛΕΣ KAΛΟΣ, Διωνοκλής καλός. (b) A bald-headed old man (or woman?) in long chiton, himation and fillet, and carrying a crutch staff on his left arm, running to left, extending his right arm as if to aid the woman in a. In the field, KAΛΛΙΑΣ, above, KAΛΟΣ, Καλλίας καλός. Later stage of strong style. Purple inscriptions, wreath, fillet, cord of petasos, and swordbelt. Brown inner markings, folds of chiton in b, and bracelets. Hair of warrior edged with dots, beard with wavy strokes; hair and beard of old man left in brown outline. Eye of warrior of transition type (dotted circle in place of inner angle); the other eyes archaic. Below the scenes a continuous band, sets of five maeanders separated by red cross and dotted chequer squares. On the lower insertion of each handle, an inverted palmette. --The British Museum

41. Menelaos and Helen

Menelaos and Helen

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Type of Menelaus pursuing Helen. Warrior with drawn sword pursuing a woman. He is bearded, wreathed, nude, with petasos hanging by cord at back, chlamys as shield on left arm, scabbard at waist, with brown snake ornament twisted round it, and rushes to right with a drawn sword in his right hand; the woman in chiton, himation, bracelets, earrings, and a radiated stephane, looks back, extending her right with a gesture of entreaty; with her left she raises the edge of her skirt. Between the figures, ΔΙΟΝΟΚΛΕΣ KAΛΟΣ, Διωνοκλής καλός. (b) A bald-headed old man (or woman?) in long chiton, himation and fillet, and carrying a crutch staff on his left arm, running to left, extending his right arm as if to aid the woman in a. In the field, KAΛΛΙΑΣ, above, KAΛΟΣ, Καλλίας καλός. Later stage of strong style. Purple inscriptions, wreath, fillet, cord of petasos, and swordbelt. Brown inner markings, folds of chiton in b, and bracelets. Hair of warrior edged with dots, beard with wavy strokes; hair and beard of old man left in brown outline. Eye of warrior of transition type (dotted circle in place of inner angle); the other eyes archaic. Below the scenes a continuous band, sets of five maeanders separated by red cross and dotted chequer squares. On the lower insertion of each handle, an inverted palmette. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

42. Leave-taking

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Nike pouring wine, warrior. The warrior, on left, stands en face, with right hand on hip, and holding a spear upright in his left, and looks to right at Nike, who is also en face, but looks at him: she holds up in her left a caduceus, and pours wine on the ground from a jug in her right, her wings are spread on each side, and she wears a Doric chiton schistos, and a broad buckled band round her looped up hair: the warrior has a helmet with raised cheekpieces, frontal of projecting spirals, and a honeysuckle ornament on the crown, a cuirass with central stripe of scales and shoulder-pieces decorated with stars, a short chiton, and a sword. (b) Nike and a woman. Nike on right stands as before, extending her right as if addressing the woman on left, who holds a short-headed spear (?) or sceptre upright in her right; she wears an Ionic chiton and mantle; Nike a Doric chiton with apoptygma and broad girdle; each has the hair looped up with a fillet. Strong good period. Purple wine. Brown edge of hair and inner markings. Below, sets of three maeanders separated by oblique red cross squares. Round shoulder, guilloche: round lip, egg pattern: on each side of neck, a palmette with four tendrils: below each handle, two palmettes back-to-back, with a spiral tendril on each side. -- 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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

43. Thetis brings arms

Thetis brings arms

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. Palmettes and lotus flowers on neck. Side A: Thetis and Nereid bringing armour to Achilles. Thetis holds out a shield (purple rosette as device) to Achilles, who is bearded and holds up a helmet. On the right a Nereid holds greaves and a spear. On the left an elderly man with spear. Side B: Two cocks confronted, with lotus flower between and two lotus buds above. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

44. Thetis brings arms

Thetis brings arms

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. Palmettes and lotus flowers on neck. Side A: Thetis and Nereid bringing armour to Achilles. Thetis holds out a shield (purple rosette as device) to Achilles, who is bearded and holds up a helmet. On the right a Nereid holds greaves and a spear. On the left an elderly man with spear. Side B: Two cocks confronted, with lotus flower between and two lotus buds above. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

45. Zeus and Ganymede

Zeus and Ganymede

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

46. Achilles plays with Aias

Achilles plays with Aias

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

47. Sisyphos in Underworld

Sisyphos in Underworld

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

48. Sisyphos in Underworld

Sisyphos in Underworld

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

49. Recovery of Helen by Menelaos

Recovery of Helen by Menelaos

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. (a) Birth of Athene: In the centre is Zeus seated to right on an okladias, bearded, with long tresses, fillet, long embroidered chiton and striped himation, sceptre in left hand. From his head springs a diminutive Athene to right, with one leg advanced, lofty helmet with cheek pieces, aegis, long striped chiton, shield, and spear brandished in right hand. On either side of Zeus is an Eileithyia, facing him, with long tresses, fillet, long embroidered chiton and diploidion, both hands raised. On the left is Hermes to right, bearded, with long hair, petasos, endromides, and caduceus; on the right is Hephaestos departing, looking back, nude and bearded, with double-headed axe over right shoulder. (b) Acamas and Demophon with Aethra: In the centre is Aethra to right, in long chiton and himation veiling her head, both embroidered, and in advance of her is Demophon, looking back at her and taking hold of her himation. On the left is Acamas to right; both are fully armed, with short embroidered chitons; Acamas has a Boeotian shield. On the right is a beardless male figure to left with long chiton and embroidered himation. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931

50. Departure

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

51. Maia and Hermes

Maia and Hermes

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

52. Hypnos and Thanatos carrying Sarpedon

Hypnos and Thanatos carrying Sarpedon

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

53. Maia and Hermes

Maia and Hermes

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

54. Cassandra?

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Ajax seizing Cassandra (?). In place of the Palladion is an archaic image of Apollo, in the form of a long-haired, beardless youth, en face, with hands at sides and feet close together, a black line drawn horizontally across the waist; this figure stands on a square base, resting on a plinth on the left. Cassandra, in sleeved chiton with apoptygma tied, and himation over her shoulders, with hair flying loose in long wavy tresses, has fled to the statue; and with one foot on the plinth she is in the act of throwing both arms around its waist, but is dragged back by Ajax, who, with right foot raised, has seized her with his right hand by the hair. He is bearded, and has a helmet tilted back, shield (device, a lion in silhouette, springing to left), spear, and greaves decorated with spirals. Beneath his shield hangs an end of drapery which is not shown elsewhere. (b) Bearded man in himation, standing to right, resting right hand on a staff. Late stage of strong style. Brown inner markings and (very light yellowish) for hair of Apollo. Eyes of Apollo of archaic type. Greater part of figure of Ajax destroyed, only the head, right arm and shoulder, right knee and calf of leg being preserved, though the outline of the rest remains. Below a, sets of three maeanders separated by dotted crosses; below b, key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

55. Cassandra?

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Ajax seizing Cassandra (?). In place of the Palladion is an archaic image of Apollo, in the form of a long-haired, beardless youth, en face, with hands at sides and feet close together, a black line drawn horizontally across the waist; this figure stands on a square base, resting on a plinth on the left. Cassandra, in sleeved chiton with apoptygma tied, and himation over her shoulders, with hair flying loose in long wavy tresses, has fled to the statue; and with one foot on the plinth she is in the act of throwing both arms around its waist, but is dragged back by Ajax, who, with right foot raised, has seized her with his right hand by the hair. He is bearded, and has a helmet tilted back, shield (device, a lion in silhouette, springing to left), spear, and greaves decorated with spirals. Beneath his shield hangs an end of drapery which is not shown elsewhere. (b) Bearded man in himation, standing to right, resting right hand on a staff. Late stage of strong style. Brown inner markings and (very light yellowish) for hair of Apollo. Eyes of Apollo of archaic type. Greater part of figure of Ajax destroyed, only the head, right arm and shoulder, right knee and calf of leg being preserved, though the outline of the rest remains. Below a, sets of three maeanders separated by dotted crosses; below b, key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

56. Man tearing woman from statue of man

Man tearing woman from statue of man

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Ajax seizing Cassandra (?). In place of the Palladion is an archaic image of Apollo, in the form of a long-haired, beardless youth, en face, with hands at sides and feet close together, a black line drawn horizontally across the waist; this figure stands on a square base, resting on a plinth on the left. Cassandra, in sleeved chiton with apoptygma tied, and himation over her shoulders, with hair flying loose in long wavy tresses, has fled to the statue; and with one foot on the plinth she is in the act of throwing both arms around its waist, but is dragged back by Ajax, who, with right foot raised, has seized her with his right hand by the hair. He is bearded, and has a helmet tilted back, shield (device, a lion in silhouette, springing to left), spear, and greaves decorated with spirals. Beneath his shield hangs an end of drapery which is not shown elsewhere. (b) Bearded man in himation, standing to right, resting right hand on a staff. Late stage of strong style. Brown inner markings and (very light yellowish) for hair of Apollo. Eyes of Apollo of archaic type. Greater part of figure of Ajax destroyed, only the head, right arm and shoulder, right knee and calf of leg being preserved, though the outline of the rest remains. Below a, sets of three maeanders separated by dotted crosses; below b, key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

57. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora (jar) with a seated woman. --The British Museum

58. Departure

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

59. Departure of Warrior

Departure of Warrior

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

60. Departure

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

61. Bringing Arms

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

62. Receiving Arms

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

63. Departure

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

64. The Judgment of Paris

The Judgment of Paris

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Paris and Hermes on Mount Ida. Mount Ida is indicated on left by a series of wavy lines; Paris is seated on the top, a wreathed youth with wavy hair falling to his neck, and a mantle about his lower limbs and left arm, playing upon the chelys with a plectrum. On the right Hermes stands en face, but looking towards Paris; he is bearded, and has a short chiton, a chlamys fastened on the right shoulder, and a petasos hanging at his back; his left arm is concealed by his mantle; in his right hand, which hangs at his side, is a caduceus. (b) Draped ephebos resting right on staff, standing en face, looking to left. Fine style. Purple ground-lines, cord of petasos, pegs of lyre, and wreath; brown inner markings. Ends of hair in thinned black. Eye in developed profile type. Below a, sets of three maeanders alternately to right and left, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, a strip of key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

65. Achilles plays game with Aias

Achilles plays game with Aias

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

66. Achilles and Ajax

Achilles and Ajax

Description: Achilles and Ajax, two great heroes of the Trojan War, play a board game on this Athenian black-figure amphora. Behind the table stands the goddess Athena. The scene of the warriors at leisure but with their armor at the ready might have taken place during a break in fighting the Trojan War. This depiction of Ajax and Achilles gaming was especially popular in Athenian art in the late 500s B.C.; over 150 surviving vases show the scene. Why was this image so popular? Some scholars have argued that it was politically motivated. They interpret this scene as a mythical parallel for the tyrant Peisistratos's return from exile, when he was able to regain power because the Athenian army was unprepared for battle. If so, then these vases would be anti-Peisistratid propaganda, alerting Athenians to the importance of vigilance by reminding them of the consequences of their recent failure. The back of the vase shows a warrior departing for battle, standing between two old men. This was a common scene on vases and, in this case, a subject loosely connected with the scene on the front of the vase. --J. Paul Getty Museum, Green, Christopher, and Jens M. Daehner. Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Leger, and Picabia (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011) 45, 152, no. 5; pl. 3

67. Achilles and Ajax

Achilles and Ajax

Description: Achilles and Ajax, two great heroes of the Trojan War, play a board game on this Athenian black-figure amphora. Behind the table stands the goddess Athena. The scene of the warriors at leisure but with their armor at the ready might have taken place during a break in fighting the Trojan War. This depiction of Ajax and Achilles gaming was especially popular in Athenian art in the late 500s B.C.; over 150 surviving vases show the scene. Why was this image so popular? Some scholars have argued that it was politically motivated. They interpret this scene as a mythical parallel for the tyrant Peisistratos's return from exile, when he was able to regain power because the Athenian army was unprepared for battle. If so, then these vases would be anti-Peisistratid propaganda, alerting Athenians to the importance of vigilance by reminding them of the consequences of their recent failure. The back of the vase shows a warrior departing for battle, standing between two old men. This was a common scene on vases and, in this case, a subject loosely connected with the scene on the front of the vase. --J. Paul Getty Museum, Green, Christopher, and Jens M. Daehner. Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Leger, and Picabia (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011) 45, 152, no. 5; pl. 3

68. Achilles and Ajax

Achilles and Ajax

Description: Achilles and Ajax, two great heroes of the Trojan War, play a board game on this Athenian black-figure amphora. Behind the table stands the goddess Athena. The scene of the warriors at leisure but with their armor at the ready might have taken place during a break in fighting the Trojan War. This depiction of Ajax and Achilles gaming was especially popular in Athenian art in the late 500s B.C.; over 150 surviving vases show the scene. Why was this image so popular? Some scholars have argued that it was politically motivated. They interpret this scene as a mythical parallel for the tyrant Peisistratos's return from exile, when he was able to regain power because the Athenian army was unprepared for battle. If so, then these vases would be anti-Peisistratid propaganda, alerting Athenians to the importance of vigilance by reminding them of the consequences of their recent failure. The back of the vase shows a warrior departing for battle, standing between two old men. This was a common scene on vases and, in this case, a subject loosely connected with the scene on the front of the vase. --J. Paul Getty Museum, Green, Christopher, and Jens M. Daehner. Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Leger, and Picabia (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011) 45, 152, no. 5; pl. 3

69. Aias carrying Achilles

Aias carrying Achilles

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

70. Flight of Aeneas

Flight of Aeneas

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

71. Arming

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

72. Departing Warrior

Departing Warrior

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

73. Departing Warrior

Departing Warrior

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

74. Departing Warrior

Departing Warrior

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

75. Departing Warrior

Departing Warrior

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

76. Aeneas flees Troy

Aeneas flees Troy

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

77. Circe

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

78. Triptolemos with Demeter and Kore

Triptolemos with Demeter and Kore

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) The sending of Triptolemos. In the centre Triptolemos, a youth with long hair looped up over the ears, a laurel wreath (red) with an olive wreath (purple) over it, a mantle about his legs, is seated to right in the winged carriage; he holds upright in his left a sceptre, the end resting on his right foot, and in his right a phiale. On the right Demeter stands en face, but looking at him, and pouring wine (the σπονδή) from a jug hanging in her right hand: her left rests on her shoulder. On the left Persephone stands looking on, leaning with her left on a sceptre, and holding downwards in her right ears of corn. Each goddess wears a long sleeved chiton and himation, earrings, and a radiated fillet. Demeter has a saccos: Persephone, a broad band, studded with crosses, wound twice round her looped up hair: her chiton has a broad border of dots and a pattern of crosses. The wings of the chariot are very long, and rise perpendicularly from the axle. The seat is modelled after an Ionic capital, with a spotted cushion, and has a dotted step and side rail terminating in a rosette, resting on columniform supports. (b) Demeter (?), Persephone (?), and a woman. Two women, resembling the goddesses in a, stand on the right, facing a figure closely draped in long chiton and mantle, and long hair bound with radiated fillet, who appears to be a woman and to wear earrings. Demeter stands in the centre, dressed as before, and holding a burning torch. Persephone stands on right en face, but looking to left, holding in her right upright a sceptre: her chiton is here without decoration, her hair is knotted behind, and she has a radiated fillet. Late stage of large style. Purple (or white?) rays, wreath, wine, flame, and ears of corn. No inner markings of anatomy. Eye in profile. --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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

79. Achilles and Penthesileia

Achilles and Penthesileia

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Achilles slaying Penthesileia. Achilles, a bearded warrior wearing helmet with lowered cheek-pieces, mantle hanging from left arm, shield (device, a panther to left, red, on a red ground-line, on black ground) and spear in left hand, strides to left, swinging over his head a long sword (κοπίς) with spiral end of handle, against Penthesileia, who retreats before him, holding up in both hands her heavy battle-axe (sagaris) as if to ward off the blow: she wears anaxyrides of the usual pattern, shoes, kidaris with flat top, and a short chiton with apoptygma, tied with a dotted girdle: her head is in three-quarter face to right: at her side hangs by a purple crossbelt a quiver with wing-shaped flap. Beside her in the background her horse prances to left: below it, her bow (of Scythian form) falls to the ground. On the shield of Achilles his name is inscribed, AXΙΛΛΕΥΣ, Άχιλλεύς. (b) A bearded draped man with sceptre in right, standing en face between two women: the one on the left, at whom he looks, holds up her right hand as if addressing him: the other holds in her right a burning torch. Each wears an Ionic chiton, mantle, and earrings: the one on left has a saccos: the other a fillet. On the bottom of the foot are incised characters ΣΠA. Purple inscription, cross-belt, reins, flame, and fillets. Brown inner markings, edge of hair, tail of a horse: also for pupil of eye, which in a is of much exaggerated size. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927

80. Battle with owl, quoth Θux

Battle with owl, quoth Θux

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

81. Departure of Athena

Departure of Athena

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. On side A, a woman is depicted pouring a libation before the goddess Athena. At the left is a woman wearing a chiton; her hair is tied in a bun at the back with hair bands in added red. She is seen in profile to the right. In her raised right hand she holds a phiale and in her left an oinochoe. To the right stands the goddess Athena, who wears a diadem; her hair is gathered in a bun. She stands frontally but looks to the right, toward the woman. She is dressed in a chiton and a long, folded-over cloak, on top of which rests her snake-fringed aegis. In her right hand she holds a spear and in her left a crested Attic helmet. Both figures stand on a reserved base line decorated with three strips of meanders in alternating directions, separated by dotted crosses. On side B a single female figure stands facing right, wearing a chiton and a cloak. Her right arm is raised, and her hair is confined in a snood. She stands on a reserved base line decorated with a running meander. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

82. 842.127 (left) Steven Lowenstam Collection

842.127 (left) Steven Lowenstam Collection

Description: On left is a Neck-amphora, Vase E324, measuring at 33.655 cm in height and listed under Repository ID: 1867,0508.1059. Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. On side A, a woman is depicted pouring a libation before the goddess Athena. At the left is a woman wearing a chiton; her hair is tied in a bun at the back with hair bands in added red. She is seen in profile to the right. In her raised right hand she holds a phiale and in her left an oinochoe. To the right stands the goddess Athena, who wears a diadem; her hair is gathered in a bun. She stands frontally but looks to the right, toward the woman. She is dressed in a chiton and a long, folded-over cloak, on top of which rests her snake-fringed aegis. In her right hand she holds a spear and in her left a crested Attic helmet. Both figures stand on a reserved base line decorated with three strips of meanders in alternating directions, separated by dotted crosses. On side B a single female figure stands facing right, wearing a chiton and a cloak. Her right arm is raised, and her hair is confined in a snood. She stands on a reserved base line decorated with a running meander. --The British Museum; On right is a Neck-amphora, Vase E323, measuring at 34.29 cm in height and listed under Repository ID: 1867,0508.1116. Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Paris and Hermes on Mount Ida. Mount Ida is indicated on left by a series of wavy lines; Paris is seated on the top, a wreathed youth with wavy hair falling to his neck, and a mantle about his lower limbs and left arm, playing upon the chelys with a plectrum. On the right Hermes stands en face, but looking towards Paris; he is bearded, and has a short chiton, a chlamys fastened on the right shoulder, and a petasos hanging at his back; his left arm is concealed by his mantle; in his right hand, which hangs at his side, is a caduceus. (b) Draped ephebos resting right on staff, standing en face, looking to left. Fine style. Purple ground-lines, cord of petasos, pegs of lyre, and wreath; brown inner markings. Ends of hair in thinned black. Eye in developed profile type. Below a, sets of three maeanders alternately to right and left, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, a strip of key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

83. Menelaos and Helen

Menelaos and Helen

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Type of Menelaos pursuing Helen. Young warrior pursuing a woman with a sword. The woman flees to right, her right hand pressed to bosom with gesture of fear, her left enveloped in himation. She wears a long chiton, diploidion with apoptygma, tied at waist with a shawl instead of a girdle (?), and her hair is looped up with many ties of a fillet. She looks back at her pursuer, who strides forward with drawn sword, left extended holding scabbard. He is beardless, with wavy hair falling to shoulders and tied with fillet, and wears short chiton, cuirass, and a mantle on outstretched left. His cuirass has the sides decorated with vertical rows of dots (representing scales ?). (b) Woman running to right with arms outstretched on either side, looking back; she wears a sleeved chiton, himation, and saccos. Drawing of good period. Excessive drapery. Purple swordbelt and fillets, brown ends of hair, shading of flaps of cuirass, and folds of chiton in b. Below a, sets of three maeanders in alternate directions, separated by dotted crosses ; below b, key pattern to right. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

84. Woman and Woman'

Woman and Woman'

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. On side A, a woman is depicted pouring a libation before the goddess Athena. At the left is a woman wearing a chiton; her hair is tied in a bun at the back with hair bands in added red. She is seen in profile to the right. In her raised right hand she holds a phiale and in her left an oinochoe. To the right stands the goddess Athena, who wears a diadem; her hair is gathered in a bun. She stands frontally but looks to the right, toward the woman. She is dressed in a chiton and a long, folded-over cloak, on top of which rests her snake-fringed aegis. In her right hand she holds a spear and in her left a crested Attic helmet. Both figures stand on a reserved base line decorated with three strips of meanders in alternating directions, separated by dotted crosses. On side B a single female figure stands facing right, wearing a chiton and a cloak. Her right arm is raised, and her hair is confined in a snood. She stands on a reserved base line decorated with a running meander. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

85. Zeus instructing Hermes

Zeus instructing Hermes

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

86. Dionysus

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

87. Sisyphos and souls pouring water

Sisyphos and souls pouring water

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

88. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

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

89. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

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

90. Menelaos leads Helen

Menelaos leads Helen

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

91. Return of Hephaistos

Return of Hephaistos

Description: Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora: Dionysos leads Hephaistos back to Mount Olympus. On the reverse are three mounted Amazons. --The British Museum

92. The Judgment of Paris

The Judgment of Paris

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

93. [No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

[No Caption] Steven Lowenstam Collection

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

94. Aias and Kassandra

Aias and Kassandra

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

95. Aias and Kassandra

Aias and Kassandra

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

96. Aias and Kassandra

Aias and Kassandra

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

97. Warrior receiving Armor

Warrior receiving Armor

Description: Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Type of Thetis bringing armour to Achilles. A youth on left, wreathed, with hair looped up and passed over ear, and a mantle in a doubled roll thrown over his left shoulder, holds out his right for a helmet which a woman offers him; she has also a shield with black device of a scorpion to left, and a long spear, and she wears a long chiton, himation, a radiated stephane, and a saccos which has a flap behind the left ear. (b) Bearded man in himation, wearing a fillet with a vertical piece over the forehead, standing to left, resting right hand on staff. Drawing of the best period. Purple wreath and fillet; brown inner markings. Edge of hair dotted. Eye in profile. Below a, pairs of maeanders set in alternate directions, separated by dotted cross squares; below b, a strip of key pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930

98. Arming of Achilles

Arming of Achilles

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

99. Arming of Achilles

Arming of Achilles

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

100. Achilles and Ajax

Achilles and Ajax

Description: Scenes from the mythological Trojan War decorate this Athenian black-figure neck-amphora. On the front, Achilles and Ajax, two great heroes of the Greeks, sit playing a board game. The goddess Athena stands in front of the board and gestures. The warriors have their armor and weapons ready, as if just pausing during a break in the conflict. This scene of Ajax and Achilles gaming was very popular in Athenian vase-painting of the late 500s B.C. and was a favorite of the painters in the Leagros Group. Many scholars believe that this mythological scene also served as a contemporary political parable on the value of staying alert, since the tyrant Peisistratos had been able to take control of the city of Athens while the army was distracted. The back of the vase depicts three hoplites, or warriors, in a line. Such files of hoplites are rather unusual in vase-painting, and this depiction may have been meant to relate to the scene on the front of the vase. These hoplites may be Greeks on the march to counter a Trojan attack, while Ajax and Achilles are notified by Athena. Such an interpretation would explain Athena's unusually prominent position on this rendition of the scene. --J. Paul Getty Museum; Bareiss Loan: S.80.AE.292, May, Helmut, ed. Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, exh. cat. (Cologne: Kunsthalle Köln, 1968), cat. no. A 24.; 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. 2, no. 19.; Brommer, Frank. Vasenlisten zur griechischen Heldensage. 3rd ed. (Marburg: 1973) p. 335, no. 23.; Woodford, Susan.