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Suicide of Ajax, by the Black-Figure vase painter Exekias, ca. 540-530 BCE. The Suicide of Ajax Vase by the Black-Figure master Exekias depicts the suicide of Ajax is a neck amphora, painted in the black-figure style. It is now in the Château-musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer in France.
Suicide of Ajax, by the Athenian Black-Figure Master, Exekias Exekias does not seem to have specialized in a specific vessel type. Among the vases made or decorated by him are neck amphorae, Type A and B amphorae, calyx kraters, column kraters, Type A cups, dinoi, hydriai, and at least one Panathenaic amphora . [ 17 ]
The suicide of Ajax vase was made by Exekias during the Archaic Period. The scene depicts Ajax preparing for his suicide in black-figure on a neck amphora. Ajax is bent over his sword, which he is placing in the ground. There is a tree to one side of him and his suit of armor on the other side.
Ajax preparing for suicide in a depiction by the black-figure vase painter Exekias, ca. 540 BCE. Ajax, as he appears in this play, in the Iliad, and other myths, is a heroic figure, a "rugged giant", with strength, courage and the ability to think quickly well beyond the normal standards of mankind. He was considered a legendary character to ...
Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot; however, the Trojans have already stripped Patroclus of Achilles' armor. Ajax's prayer to Zeus to remove the fog that has descended on the battle to allow them to fight or die in the light of day has become proverbial.
Heracles and Geryon on an Attic black-figured amphora with a thick layer of transparent gloss, c. 540 BC, now in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities.. Black-figure pottery painting (also known as black-figure style or black-figure ceramic; Ancient Greek: μελανόμορφα, romanized: melanómorpha) is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases.
bilingual belly amphora 99.538 Front and back: Herakles and the Cretan bull [4] [5] bilingual belly amphora 01.8037. Front and back: Achilles and Ajax playing a board game [6] [7] London, British Museum; bilingual belly amphora B 193 Front: Herakles and the Neman Lion between Athena and Iolaos, back: Ajax and Achilles playing a board game [8] [9]
Olive gathering, amphora, ‚circa 520 BC. British Museum. Herakles, Eurystheus and the Erymanthian Boar. Side A from an Ancient Greek black-figured amphora painted by Antimenes, ca. 525 BC, from Etruria. Louvre, Paris. Ajax, protected by Hermes and Athena carries the body of Achilles back to the Greek camp, 520–510 BC, Louvre.