Latin 2 Bellwork

1. 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.

2. The Trojan War Achilles and Ajax

3. 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.

5. 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

6. Achilles • Son of Peleus and Thetis • Mightiest of the Greeks in the Trojan War • Reading packet: p. 280 – Achilles in disguise

7. Briseis is led from Achilles’ tent to Agamemnon’s Reading packet: 281-82

8. Reading packet: p. 287 – Hector vs. Ajax 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>

9. 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

10. Reading packet: p. 294: Death of Ajax