The Decoration Of A Handle Of The Francois Vase, a large Athenian mixing-bowl (crater), 66 cm high,
found in Etruria at Chmsi. It is one of the earliest Athenian vases devoted completely to figure decoration-
270 human and animal figures with 121 inscriptions, painted about 570 Be. Artemis is shown here in her
early guise as a mistress of animals, and winged, a form which may owe much to the Near East: later her
relationship with the animals changes and she is a huntress. The warrior carried from the field of battle is
a stock group, with the figures here identified as Ajax with Achilles, as commonly, but not exclusively, on
other works.
The Works and Days is evidently a later work. In the Theogony Hesiod listed Strife as one of the horrid
children of Night; but in the Works he has thought further, and now he finds that after all there are two
kinds of Strife. One is bad, but a second, characteristically called 'the elder', meaning 'the better', is a