Empedocles, who denounced the killing and eating of animals as murder and cannibalism, and implored
men to abandon it.
An Oil Vase (lekythos) made for an Athenian burial by the Achilles Painter in about 450-440 B.C.,
showing a muse on Mount Helicon. The figures on these vases must resemble those of contemporary and
earlier (Polygnotan) wall-paintings.