Red Figure Volute Krater
Date: Mid-5th Century
Dimensions: 48 cm. High
Material: Red Clay
Province: Attic
Current Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Presented by Mr. Edmund Oldfield
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Cult Statue of Athena Parthenos
Date: 437 BCE
Dimensions: 12m. High
Materials: Ivory, marble, gold, bronze, wood, cloth
Province: Athens
Current Location: It is no longer in existence.
Red Figured Wine Bowl (calyx-krater)
Date: 460-450 BCE
Dimensions: 49.5 cm High
Materials: clay
Province: Athens
Current Location: British Museum, London
So Zeus, who knows imperishable counsels,
spoke in his anger,
and even remembering this deception
thereafter, he would not
give the force of weariless fire
to the ash-tree people,
not to people who inhabit the earth
and are mortal,
no, but to strong son of Iapetos
outwitted him
and stole the far-seen glory
of weariless fire, hiding it
in the hallow fennel stalk;
this bit down into the feeling
of Zeus who thunders on high,
and it galled the heart inside him
when he saw the far-seen glory of fire,
among mortal people,
and next, for the price of frie,
he made an evil thing for mankind.
For the renowned smith of strong arms
took earth, and molded it,
through Zeus's plans, into the likeness
of a modest young girl
Passage from Hesiod’s Theogony
Date: Late 8th Century
Province: Boetia