Figure 32 Obverse of Panathenaic prize amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter, showing Athena;
height 62.4 cm, ca. 500–490 BC. Princeton University Art Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Allan
Marquand.
Figure 33 Reverse of Figure 32, showing a competitor in the four-horse chariot race. Princeton
University Art Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Allan Marquand.
Figure 34 Attic black-figure amphora signed, “Exekias made and painted me,” showing Ajax and
Achilles (both labeled) playing dice; height 61.1 cm, ca. 540–530 BC. Vatican Museums, Museo
Gregoriano Etrusco, Inv. 16757.
Figure 35 Interior of Attic red-figure cup by the Epidromos Painter, showing two men about to
sacrifice a pig; diameter of cup 19.8 cm, ca. 510–500 BC. Paris, Musée du Louvre, G 112.Chapter
Figure 36 Attic red-figure amphora, showing a hoplite spearing a Persian warrior who holds a
bow and a sword; height 34.8 cm, ca. 480–470 BC. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Rogers Fund, 1906 (06.1021.117).
Figure 37 Attic black-figure cup, showing warship with two banks of oars (right) about to ram a
merchant vessel; height of cup 8.4 cm, late sixth century BC. London, British Museum, Vases B
436.
Figure 38 The Olympias, a full-scale reconstruction of an ancient trireme, built in 1985–7 to test
the properties of such a vessel under actual sailing conditions.Chapter
Figure 39 Town plan of Miletus, fifth century BC.
Figure 40 The arrangement of the 30 Cleisthenic trittyes, based on the table in J. S. Traill, Demos
and Trittys: Epigraphical and Topographical Studies in the Organization of Attica (Toronto
1986), 110. (Not all of the names of trittyes are certain.)
Figure 41 Ostrakon from Athens (P 9950), inscribed “Themistocles (son) of Neocles of (the
deme) Phrearrhioi,” with the name and the deme misspelled (“Themisthocles,” “Phrerrhios”);
width 10 cm, 480s or 470s BC.
Figure 42 Fragment of an inscription on marble listing the allies of Athens and the sixtieth part of
each city’s monetary contribution that was dedicated to Athena; 440–439 BC. New York, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1926.
Figure 43 Red-figure bell krater by the Christie Painter, showing Dionysus flanked by a
MAENAD and a satyr; height 29.2 cm, ca. 440 BC. Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, 48.74.Chapter
Figure 44 Attic red-figure hydria (water pitcher), by a painter of the Group of Polygnotus,
showing the poet Sappho holding open and reading a roll; height of vase 40 cm, 440–430 BC.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, 1260.
Figure 45 Attic black-figure amphora by Exekias, showing Ajax preparing to commit suicide;
height of vase 61 cm, ca. 530 BC. Boulogne-sur-mer, Château-Musée, 558.
Figure 46 Attic red-figure vessel by Sotades in the form of a knucklebone, showing women or