Subject: ὁπλίτης heavy infantry hoplite
Culture: Spartan Greek
Setting: Peloponnesian war, Spartan Hegemony, Greece 431-371BC
Royal Ontario Museum > Gallery of the Bronze Age Aegean *
"MULE'S HEAD RHYTON On the neck, soldier and cloaked youth conversing. A trainer (paidagogos) and naked youth flank the handle.
In the manner of the Eretria Painter. About 410 B.C. Found in South Italy."
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World
"Mythological Relief: The Death of Priam Probably Roman, about 50 B.C.-A.D. 50
Inspired by a Greek work of the first half of the fourth century B.C. Found below Fiesole near Florence Marble
Inscribed: 'Aurelia Secunda made (this tomb) for herself while still living and for her family'
The Roman funerary inscription of about A.D. 200 is cut over an earlier inscription which has been chiseled away. The relief shows the death of Priam, aged King of Troy, sacreligiously killed as he takes sanctuary at an altar by Achilles' son, Neoptolemos. Hecuba, Priam's wife, reacts with a gesture of sadness and horror." ...
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World > Greek Art of the Fifth Century B.C. -- the Classical Period
"FRAGMENT OF AN OINOCHOE
Ca. 400 B.C.
The Tyrannicides Harmodios and Aristogeiton
From the tomb of Dexileos in the Dipylon cemetery of Athens ...
In 514 B.C. Harmodios and Aristogeiton formed a conspiracy to overthrow the ruling family of Athens. Their uprising failed, but in later times they were glorified as martyrs of liberty. They were commemorated in a sculptural group by Kritios and Nesiotes set up in the civic center (Agora) in 477 B.C., which was the model for this image. The fragment comes from the tomb of an Athenian warrior who fell in the Corinthian War."
