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Fig. 1: Embassy for Helen: Menelaos, Odysseus, and Talthybios on steps of altar at Troy. Detail of Late Corinthian I krater (560 BCE), name vase of Astarita Painter. Once Astarita Collection 565, Naples; Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco 35525. Photo: Vatican Museums.
Fig. 2: Embassy for Helen: Theano, Dia, Malo, and Trophos receiving Greek envoys at Troy. Detail of Late Corinthian I krater (560 BCE), name vase of Astarita Painter. Once Astarita Collection 565, Naples; Vatican, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco 35525. Photo: Vatican Museums.
Fig. 3: Achilles at the fountainhouse pursuing Troilos, and Polyxena, Athenian black-figure overlap Siana cup, attributed to the C Painter, ca. 575 BCE (side A). New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, 1901 (01.8.6). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fig. 4: Tyrrhenian amphora, attributed to the Guglielmi Painter. Obverse: Herakles battling the Keryneian Hind, watched by Zeus and Athena and approached by Apollo and Artemis. Princeton University Art Museum, Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection Fund, 2001â218.
Fig. 5: Terracotta arula from Sicily, 550â540 BCE: Herakles and Triton crossing the sea. Photo: HervĂ© Lewandowski. © bpk, Paris v RMN-Grand Palais.
Fig. 6: Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. no. 253129. Kylix by the Sabouroff Painter, from Bettolle (formerly Passerini Collection): tondo. Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana.
Fig. 7: Bronze krater: an assistant and a hero. Photo: Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei.
Fig. 8: Priam, from a Ransom of Hektor, fragment of a red-figure calyx krater attributed to the Black Fury Painter, Apulian, ca. 400â380 BCE. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920, 1920.195. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY.
Figs. 9â12: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlungen V.I. 3209, fragmentary Attic red-figure loutrophoros from Athens attributed to the Manner of the Talos Painter, ca. 440â400 BCE. Photos: Johannes Laurentius. © bpk â Bildagentur fĂŒr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin.
Fig. 13: Red-figure loutrophoros by the Painter of Bologna 228, Athens, National Archaeological Museum 1170 (470â460 BCE). Photo: author. © Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports/Archaeological Receipts Fund.
Fig. 14: Metropolitan garland sarcophagus with Medeaâs escape on Heliosâ chariot. Toledo Museum of Art 2005.320.
Fig. 15: Fragment of the front long side of a Metropolitan âMeerwesenâ sarcophagus. Indiana University Art Museum 66.27.
Figs. 16â18: Metropolitan childâs circus sarcophagus, once Rome, Palazzo Barberini, then lost, and now Toledo 2008.129: Fig 16: front side; Fig. 17: left short side; Fig. 18: right short side.
Fig. 19: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 1870a, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 20: Athens, Acropolis Museum 551a. Photo: author.
Fig. 21: Athens, Acropolis Museum 552. Photo: author.
Fig. 22: Athens, Acropolis Museum 556. Photo: author.
Fig. 23: Athens, Acropolis Museum 555. Photo: author.
Fig. 24: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 1979, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 25: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 1882a, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 26: Athens, Acropolis Museum 554. Photo: author.
Fig. 27: Athens, Acropolis Museum 553. Photo: author.
Fig. 28aâb: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 661, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 29: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 1860a, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 30aâb: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 1934a, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 31aâb: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 1871a, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 32: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 2068, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 33: Athens, NA 1957 Aa 2195, from the sanctuary of the Nymph. Photo: author.
Fig. 34: Brussels, MusĂ©es Royaux dâArt et dâHistoire R 258, side A. Photo: Museum.
Fig. 35: Brussels, MusĂ©es Royaux dâArt et dâHistoire R 258, side B. Photo: Museum.
Fig. 36: Eros capturing a hare. Attic red-figure pelike attributed to the Tyszkiewicz Painter, ca. 470. Reproduced with permission from the Wilcox Classical Museum, The University of Kansas. Photo: Author.
Fig. 37: Man walking his dog. Reverse of fig. 36. Photo: author.
Fig. 38: Cat. No. 25, Side A, Apollo and Artemis with Poseidon and Hermes. Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifact Collections, 2011.17.2. Gift of Doreen Canaday Spitzer, Class of 1936. Photo Bryn Mawr College Art & Artifact Collections.
Fig. 39: Cat. No. 25. Side B. Pederastic courting Type Îł. As color fig. 38.
Fig. 40: Attic red-figure pelike of the Meidian circle, private collection. Adonis and Aphrodite with her retinue. Photo: owner.
Fig. 41: Florence, Museo Archeologico 4209: the François Vase. Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali della Toscana.
Fig. 42: ChĂątillon sur Seine, Collections du MusĂ©e du Pays ChĂątillonais â TrĂ©sor de Vix: the Vix Krater. Photo: Museum.
Fig. 43: Attic red-figure skyphos attributed to the Penelope Painter, ca. 440 BCE. Paris, Musée du Louvre G372. Architects and sacred olive tree. Photo: Hervé Lewan...