ARH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cyrus Cylinder, Achaemenid Empire, Exekias
25 Oct 2016
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The main story is in the wide scene. There is a man putting a sword in the floor. After aquiles dies, ajax takes his friend body out of the combat and then instead of he becoming the new leader, they give the title to another man so since he is so humiliated, he kills himself. In the vase, exekias portrays the moments leading up to the suicide. The hero is always on the left and the enemy is to the right. The red painting allow more detail paintings while the back use by exekias didn"t as much. The hero is shown with perfect emotions and in control of them while the enemy doesn"t control his emotions. The greeks always wanted to show that their enemy was always as strong as them so it was an honorable fight. The cyrus cylinder, of the achaemenid dynasty dating to 539 b. c. , was discovered in babylon, mesopotamia.
