Athena and Diomedes at the Trojan War
Calyx krater from Canino, Attic Red Figure. Side B. Height 0.452 m. Name vase
of the Tyszkiewicz Painter, 490-480 BCE. Museum of Fine Arts 97.368, Boston.
Combat between Diomedes and Aeneas. Diomedes advances from the left and
wounds Aeneas with a spear. Aeneas has drawn his sword but falls, helpless.
Athena encourages Diomedes.
Athena wears a thick chiton, a himation of 'Ionic' fashion, the aegis, and
an Attic helmet with a frontlet but neither nasal nor cheek-pieces. The
gorgoneum is a reduced version of that on Memnon's shield; red tongues, no
fangs. The chiton, with its bands of pattern, may be compared with the less
elaborate one worn by Athena on the painter's hydria in London. The eyelids
are bordered with brown.
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