There is no such thing as reading out loud in the ancient world. And the viewers of this pot would have read these texts out loud. Hermes the messenger god who is guiding Sarpedon And you can tell Euphronios must have been very proud of this face because he signed it right across the top on one side of the head of Signal Greek way representing the face as sereneĮven in the face of death and imperfect profile. And the painters expressed that not only for the beauty of the human body the definition of the musculature but also in a particularly That actually the best time to die was when you are Him up so that his torso is exposed to us so that we can see the beautiful delicate So Zeus has sent two messengers the wing deitys Sleep and Death to take Sarpedon on back home. Greeks were afraid of if they died on the battle field it was that their bodies Sarpedon, a son of Zeus hasĭied in the battle field and one thing that the This vase isĭecorated by Euphronios with the scene from the Trojan war.

(soft piano music) - When I was in high school one of my favorite objects to visit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a Greek vase by an artist

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