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Menelaos against Paris
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Paris, carrying spear and shield, flees to the right away from Menelaos who is in pursuit. Aphrodite is on the left; Artemis is on the right with bow and quiver.
Attic Red Figure Cup by Douris 480 bce (late archaic) Louvre G 115
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Diomedes against Aeneas
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Diomedes strikes at Aeneas with his spear. Aeneas has drawn his sword, but falls, helpless. Athena encourages Diomedes, and Aphrodite comes to the rescue of her son.
Attic Red Figure Calyx krater Name vase of the Tyszkiewicz Painter 480 bce (late archaic) Boston 97.368
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Ajax against Hektor
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Ajax, left, attacks Hector, while Hector falls back, bending his left knee and holding his spear out in an attempt to defend himself. On the left, Athena runs to the right to defend Ajax; on the right Apollo, his quiver at the back and his bow in his left hand, comes up to aid Hektor.
Attic Red Figure Cup by Douris 480 bce (late archaic) Louvre G 115
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The Embassy to Achilles
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On the left, Ajax leans on his staff,surveying the central scene. Odysseus stands before Achilles in the middle, entreating him to return to the fight. Achilles is seated on a stool enveloped in his himation. Phoenix closes the scene on the right.
Attic Red Figure Skyphos by Makron 470 bce (late archaic) Louvre G 146
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The ambush of Dolon
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In the center of the composition between two leafless tree trunks is Dolon looking to his left, tiptoeing, pointing a knotted spear at Diomedes, and letting go of the bow in his left hand. To the left, Odysseus steps out from behind one of the trees, grabs Dolon\'s shoulder, and prepares to drive him through with a sword. On the right, Diomedes comes out from behind the other tree, stretching out a hand to seize Dolon, and holding two spears in his left hand. His crested helmet is decorated with a crouching wolf.
Lucanian Red Figure Calyx krater Name vase of the Dolon Painter 380 bce (late classical) London F 157
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Achilles tending Patroklos
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Patroklos, who has been wounded in the upper left arm, sits on his shield, his right knees splayed outward and his left leg extended with his foot braced against the outline of the tondo. The elbow of his injured arm is supported on his left thigh and he turns his head away from the injury. Achilles stoops at his friend\'s side, wrapping the bandage around Patroklos\' arm with both hands, his full attention on the wound. An arrow (taken from Patroklos\' arm?) rests against the outline of the tondo on the far left.
Attic Red Figure Kylix attributed to the Kleophrades Painter 500 bce (archaic) Berlin F 2278
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Sleep and Death bearing Sarpedon
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A Lycian king at Troy, son of Zeus and grandson of Bellerophon. He is killed by Patroklos, wearing Achilles\' armour. His body is shown being carried from the field by Sleep and Death (Hypnos and Thanatos) who are sometimes shown as warrior figures, and winged.
Attic Red Figure Calyx Krater by Euphronios 515 bce (archaic) New York 1972.11.10
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Hephaistos and Thetis
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Thetis receiving Achilles' armor from Hephaistos. She holds a spear and shield, Hephaistos, seated on a cushioned stool on the left, holds up the helmet in his left hand, a hammer held in his right. A pair of greaves hangs on the wall between the two deities. At right is another hammer hanging from the wall of the workshop; beneath it is an anvil resting on a mound of earth.
Attic Red Figure Cup Name vase of the Foundry Painter 480 bce (late archaic) Berlin F 2294
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Athena Achilles and Hektor
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Athena presides in the center over a battle between two hoplites. The warrior on the left (Achilles?) is the aggressor; in his left hand he holds his shield with the skull of a steer as its device; in his right hand he wields his spear in a threatening manner at the second warrior (Hektor?). Hektor has fallen back to a squatting position as blood flows from two wounds, one in the torso, one in the thigh.
Attic Red Figure Stamnos attributed to the Berlin Painter 480 bce (late archaic) Munich 2406
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Ransom of Hector
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Priam enters from the left, stretching both arms out to grasp Achilles' knees, his mouth open in supplication. Achilles reclines on a couch, dining; he is cutting on a piece of meat with the knife in his right hand. More meat is piled on the low table below the couch, partially obscured by the trailing ends of his himation. In a gruesome detail, blood from the meat drips on Hektor's corpse, which lies on the floor below. Cords lash together Hektor\s feet, and blood leaks from several wounds on the body, which is represented larger than either Priam or Achilles. Attic Red Figure Hydria-kalpis attributed to Pioneer Group
500 bce (archaic) Harvard 1972.40
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