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P13.9 ACHILLES & THETIS

Achilles & Thetis | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg
Catalogue No. Würzburg L504
Beazley Archive No. Addenda 2.248
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Amphora, Neck
Painter Attributed to Hermonax
Date ca 450 B.C.
Period Early Classical

DESCRIPTION

Achilles receives armour crafted by the god Hephaestus from his mother Thetis. This painting illustrates a scene from book 19 of Homer's Iliad.

This image is a montage of two photos of the vase.

"'Accept from me the glorious arms of Hephaistos so splendid, and such as no man has ever worn on his shoulders.' The goddess [Thetis] spoke so, and set down the armour on the ground before Akhilleus." - Homer, Iliad 19.10

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Thetis