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 display Technique: black-figure Style: Mature black-figure Subject/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:
Briseis is led from Achilles’ tent to Agamemnon’s

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