The wounding of the Trojan prince Aeneas by Diomedes, detail wounded Aeneas

Mixing bowl (calyx krater) depicting dueling scenes from the Trojan war

Side B

the Tyszkiewicz Painter

about 490–480 BCE

Place of Manufacture: Greece, Attica, Athens

Said to be from Vulci and to have been found at Canino in 1889

Boston MFA 97.368 from the former Tyszkiewicz Collection

 

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Side B: The fight on this side is an episode also descibed in Book V of Homer's Iliad: the wounding of the Trojan prince Aeneas by Diomedes. As in the other scene, Athena favors the Greek hero, who has wounded Aeneas with a spear. Aphrodite rushes up to save her wounded son, an act that so infuriated Diomedes that he wounded the goddess herself, as well as her lover Ares, the god of war. The Tyszkiewicz Painter is named after this vase, which once belonged to a collector of that name.

Figures labeled: Side B: ATHENAIA, DIOMEDES, AINEAS, APHRODITE (in retrograde)

 

 

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Source: Boston MFA

collections.mfa.org/objects/153649

 

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