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hiphotos540286 Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora, about 510 BC. Storage Jar with Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game. Additional Info: 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//

hiphotos540271 Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora, about 500-480 BC. Storage Jar with Two Warriors. Additional Info: Two duels - or perhaps the same combat seen from different sides - adorn this small neck-amphora. There are no inscriptions that name the figures, but their one-on-one combat evokes the duels of heroes in the Trojan War. In the early decades of the fifth century BC many vase-painters worked in the recently invented red-figure technique. Others, however, continued to work in black-figure. In the changing pottery market, some sought ways to make their product more interesting. One method was to cover the normal reddish color of the clay background with a creamy white slip, as seen here. This white slip created a sharper contrast between the figures and the background//

uigphotos532156 Commissioned by the Comte d'Artois - who would later become Charles X of France - this painting depicts the tale of that most famous love story between Helen of 'the face that launched a thousand ships' and her ardent young lover, Paris. In GreekUnspecified//

uigphotos532003 Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces against the Troy in the Trojan War. To appease the goddess Artemis (the Roman Diana), Agamemnon was told to sacrifice Iphigenia, seen in this illustration at Aulis, the port town inUnspecified//

uigphotos531967 This painting by Frederic Leighton shows Helen of Troy attended by her handmaidens. In Greek legend, Paris was a Trojan prince, the son of Priam and Hecuba. When Eris, the Greek goddess of discord, was not invited to the marriage of the Greek leaderUnspecified//

uigphotos531970 This painting, titled Circe and the Friends of Ulysses, was done by Briton Riviere in 1872. Briton Riviere was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animalUnspecified//

uigphotos531915 The first-century B.C. Roman poet Virgil wrote in his epic poem The Aeneid that the ""winged Iris, sitting on a cloud in front of a rainbow, appears to Turnus on the steps of the palace."" In Greek mythology (Roman as well, Iris was honored as theUnspecified//

uigphotos531920 In the epic poem Odyssey by the Greek bard Homer, Nausicaa is the daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians in the eastern Mediterranean. Homer tells how Odysseus, on his way home from fighting in the great Trojan War, was shipwrecked and landedPhaeacia/Unspecified/

uigphotos531090 Commissioned by the Comte d'Artois - who would later become Charles X of France - this painting depicts the tale of that most famous love story between Helen of 'the face that launched a thousand ships' and her ardent young lover, Paris. In GreekUnspecified//

uigphotos530942 Iphigenia was the daughter of Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces against the Troy in the Trojan War. To appease the goddess Artemis (the Roman Diana), Agamemnon was told to sacrifice Iphigenia, seen in this illustration at Aulis, the port town inUnspecified//

uigphotos530891 This painting by Frederic Leighton shows Helen of Troy attended by her handmaidens. In Greek legend, Paris was a Trojan prince, the son of Priam and Hecuba. When Eris, the Greek goddess of discord, was not invited to the marriage of the Greek leaderUnspecified//

uigphotos530893 This painting, titled Circe and the Friends of Ulysses, was done by Briton Riviere in 1872. Briton Riviere was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animalUnspecified//

uigphotos530846 The first-century B.C. Roman poet Virgil wrote in his epic poem The Aeneid that the ""winged Iris, sitting on a cloud in front of a rainbow, appears to Turnus on the steps of the palace."" In Greek mythology (Roman as well, Iris was honored as theUnspecified//

uigphotos530851 In the epic poem Odyssey by the Greek bard Homer, Nausicaa is the daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians in the eastern Mediterranean. Homer tells how Odysseus, on his way home from fighting in the great Trojan War, was shipwrecked and landedPhaeacia/Unspecified/

uigphotos523374 Fierce was the battle around the body of Patroclus and many heroes fell. Patroclus was, according to Greek mythology, a Greek hero in the great Trojan War and a close friend of the superhero Achilles. After Patroclus was slain fighting in place ofancient Troy/Turkey/

uigphotos523376 Fierce was the battle around the body of Patroclus and many heroes fell. Patroclus was, according to Greek mythology, a Greek hero in the great Trojan War and a close friend of the superhero Achilles. After Patroclus was slain fighting in place ofancient Troy/Turkey/

uigphotos523101 The great Trojan War, fought between the Greeks and the Trojans, is believed to have been fought around 1184 B.C. Among the great Greek heroes were Odysseus (also known as Ulysses) and Diomedes. Fighting for the Trojans was Rhesus, king of Thrace.Turkey//

uigphotos479872 Asia Minor. The Trojan War. Troy Destroyed. Engraving, ""Los Heroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra"". Volume I. 1854Troy/Unspecified/