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  2. Pyxis (vessel) - Wikipedia

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    Pyxis (vessel) The wedding of Thetis and Peleus. Attic red-figure pyxis, c. 470–460 BC. A pyxis ( Greek: πυξίς; pl.: pyxides) is a shape of vessel from the classical world, usually a cylindrical box with a separate lid. They were used to hold cosmetics, trinkets or jewellery, but were also used for dispensing incense and by physicians to ...

  3. Marsyas Painter - Wikipedia

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    Marsyas Painter. The Marsyas Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter of the red-figure style active in Attica between 370 and 340/330 BC. The Marsyas Painter is sometimes considered the best of the Attic red-figure painters of the late 4th-century Kerch Style . His conventional name is derived from the depiction of Marsyas on a pelike, now on ...

  4. Trojan War - Wikipedia

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    Since Menelaus's wedding, Odysseus had married Penelope and fathered a son, Telemachus. In order to avoid the war, he feigned madness and sowed his fields with salt. Palamedes outwitted him by placing Telemachus, then an infant, in front of the plough's path. Odysseus turned aside, unwilling to kill his son, so revealing his sanity and forcing ...

  5. Fish plate - Wikipedia

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    For the connection bar used in railways, see Fishplate. A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the fourth century BC. Although invented in fifth-century BC Athens, most of the corpus of surviving painted fish plates originate in Southern Italy, where fourth-century BC Greek settlers, called " Italiotes ...

  6. Pioneer Group - Wikipedia

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    Pioneer Group. The Pioneer Group is a term used by scholars for a number of vase painters working in potters' quarter of Kerameikos in ancient Athens around the beginning of the 5th century BC, around the time of the emergence of red-figure vase painting, which soon displaced the previously dominant black-figure style. Krater by Euphronios.

  7. Piranesi Vase - Wikipedia

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    The Piranesi Vase or Boyd Vase is a reconstructed, colossal marble calyx krater from ancient Rome, on three legs and a triangular base, with a relief around the sides of the vase. It is 107 inches (2.71m) tall and 28 inches (0.71m) in diameter. The upper part is in the style of the Borghese Vase. The lower part, which was not original, was ...