![]() Behind each hero stands his mother - the sea-nymph Thetis behind Achilles, Eos behind Memnon. Achilles attacks from the left (as victors generally do in Greek art) and Memnon falters before his onslaught. On one side Achilles fights the Ethiopian king Memnon, brother of Priam, king of Troy and son of Eos, goddess of the dawn. The uninterrupted, glossy black surface of the body emphasizes its perfect contours, while the lighter clay ground of the curled volute handles and the immaculately painted double lotus and palmette chain draw the eye upwards to the figure scenes. This has the advantage of providing a limited and almost straight-walled field on which the painter can work. The figure scenes on this volute-krater are confined to a narrow, frieze-like band that encircles the lower element of the neck.
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