Latin 2 Bellwork
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Latin 2 Bellwork • Turn in the rest of your “Aeneas ad Inferos” translation if your group did not finish on Wednesday. • Pick up the handout from the tray by the door. – This picture is from a vase painted by the Archaic Greek artist Exekias. – The picture has several labels each followed by a line: ____ – On the lines write “V” if the label is about the vase itself; “E” if it is about Exekias, the artist; “A” if it is about the artistic elements and techniques used.
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Latin 2 Bellwork. Turn in the rest of your “Aeneas ad Inferos ” translation if your group did not finish on Wednesday. Pick up the handout from the tray by the door. This picture is from a vase painted by the Archaic Greek artist Exekias . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Latin 2 Bellwork• Turn in the rest of your “Aeneas ad Inferos”
translation if your group did not finish on Wednesday.
• Pick up the handout from the tray by the door.– This picture is from a vase painted by the Archaic
Greek artist Exekias.– The picture has several labels each followed by a
line: ____ – On the lines write “V” if the label is about the vase
itself; “E” if it is about Exekias, the artist; “A” if it is about the artistic elements and techniques used.
The Trojan War
Achilles and Ajax
Credit: Beazley Archive, <http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/>
Museum: Vatican City Size: 61cm. (amphora, signed by Exekias as both maker and painter)Function: storage and displayTechnique: black-figureStyle: Mature black-figureSubject/s: Ajax and Achilles, seated on low stools, lean forward playing a board game that the helmeted Achilles is winning: tesara (four) is written beside his head, tri (three) by Ajax's.Date: later 6th c. B.C.
The Trojan War
• Paris awards the golden apple to Aphrodite, who promised him the most beautiful woman
• Paris is reunited with his royal parents• Paris visits Sparta and elopes with Helen• Menelaus seeks help from his brother King
Agamemnon to gather the Greek armies to get Helen back
Achilles•Son of Peleus and Thetis•Mightiest of the Greeks in the Trojan War
Reading packet: p. 280 – Achilles in disguise
Briseis is led from Achilles’ tent to Agamemnon’s
Reading packet: 281-82
Ajax
After Achilles, Ajax son of Telamon was the mightiest of the Greek heroes in the Trojan War. Ajax was a huge man, head and shoulders larger than the other Greeks, enormously strong but somewhat slow of speech. Credit: Encyclopedia Mythica, <pantheon.org>
Reading packet: p. 287 – Hector vs. Ajax
Reading packet: p. 288-290: Embassy to Achilles
Reading packet: p. 291-292: Achilles vs. Hector
Vase: Achilles slays the queen of the Amazons, Penthesilea
Reading packet: p. 293: Death of Achilles
Reading packet: p. 294: Death of Ajax
