Clay; fired and painted
circa 520 BCE
Athens, Greece
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Details
Culture/Civilisation
Greek civilisation
Theme
Empire: Projecting Power
Subtheme
Do Empires Need Wars?
Case Title
Preparing for war
Display Location
Coomaraswamy Hall
Findspot
Made in Athens, Greece, found in Etruria, Italy
Measurements
40 x 27 cm
Accession Number
F 1842
Description
Like the great Indian epics, the Greek Iliad and Odyssey describe a heroic war, but also its brutal aftermath. Here, the victorious Greek king Menelaus recovers his wife Helen, over whom the Trojan war was fought. In the Greek imagination, the city of Troy became the archetypal eastern enemy.
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