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The Trojan War
Achilles and Ajax
Credit: Beazley Archive,
<http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/>
Museum: Vatican City
Size: 61cm. (amphora, signed by
Exekias as both maker and painter)
Function: storage and display
Technique: black-figure
Style: Mature black-figure
Subject/s: Ajax and Achilles, seated
on low stools, lean forward playing
a board game that the helmeted
Achilles is winning: tesara (four) is
written beside his head, tri (three)
by Ajax's.
Date: later 6th c. B.C.
The Trojan War
• Paris awards the golden apple to Aphrodite,
who promised him the most beautiful woman
• Paris is reunited with his royal parents
• Paris visits Sparta and elopes with Helen
• Menelaus seeks help from his brother King
Agamemnon to gather the Greek armies to get
Helen back
Achilles
•Son of Peleus and
Thetis
•Mightiest of the
Greeks in the
Trojan War
Reading packet: p.
280 – Achilles in
disguise
Reading
packet:
281-82
Briseis is led from Achilles’
tent to Agamemnon’s
Ajax
Reading
packet: p.
287 – Hector
vs. Ajax
After Achilles, Ajax
son of Telamon was
the mightiest of the
Greek heroes in the
Trojan War.
Ajax was a huge
man, head and
shoulders larger
than the other
Greeks, enormously
strong but
somewhat slow of
speech.
Credit: Encyclopedia Mythica,
<pantheon.org>
Reading packet: p.
288-290: Embassy to
Achilles
Reading packet: p.
291-292: Achilles vs.
Hector
Vase: Achilles slays
the queen of the
Amazons, Penthesilea
Reading packet: p.
293: Death of Achilles
Reading
packet: p.
294: Death
of Ajax