Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Cassandra / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known Prototypes / Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 307 (Medici Vase)
Historia Troiana / Events before the Trojan War / The Greeks prepare for war / Achilles and Patroclus visit the Oracle of Delphi / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance
Historia Troiana / Events before the Trojan War / The Greeks prepare for war / Achilles and Patroclus visit the Oracle of Delphi / Miscellaneous
Historia Troiana / Events before the Trojan War / The Greeks prepare for war / The sacrifice of Iphigenia / Iphigenia at the altar
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Trojan women taken prisoner / Cassandra / Ajax the Lesser denies having raped Cassandra

Further details

It is unclear if the deity is Apollo or Minerva, and hence if it is Ajax protesting his innocence in the temple of Minerva, or the Greek heroes consulting Apollo's Oracle at Delphi, in the latter case the woman collapsed in front of the statue would be a Pythia

Artist or creator

Graeco-Roman

Date

1st century BC (third quarter)

Location

Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi (inv. 307)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Dagmar Grassinger, Römische Marmorkratere, Mainz am Rhein 1991, pp. 163-166, cat. 8

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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