His eyes roll up as he is in the throes of death. His mouth is open, bearing his teeth (carefully painted) as he gasps for breath. His right arm lies limply under Herakles' taut body. In Euphronios' version, Antaeus is defeated on the ground like a wrestler. To defeat him, Herakles had to strangle him while he still had his feet off the ground.

Subject Matter The traditional story from literature of Antaeus and Herakles shows Antaeus as an earth-born giant who gets his power from contact with the earth.

Stylistic features: Heads: deep from the front to the back with neat calm features Eyes: narrow and finely lashed - opened towards the tear duct Lips: generous contours Ears: heavily-lobed and, on larger figures, careful inner markings Hair: Contours reserved or incised Fingers: often nails are marked turned upwards thin and brittle.

Both vases look forward to the beginning of the 5th century. The second one has a black neck and a single figures on each side of the body in a free black field with no ground line. One has a completely black body with pictures only on the neck.

It has been suggested that a new interest in neck amphorae with twisted handles is due to him because of two rather special ones that he did.The other useful thing you can do now is to make a quick sketch of some of the shapes we've come across already this term. In the handout which follows you will find some familiar vase-shapes, with more detailed information, but also one or two new shapes that we will meet in the next series of vases. *At this stage it is probably important that you learn a little more about the shapes of vases. He signed only 6 as a painter and 10 as a potter-this is one which he signed as a painter. Euphronios made several different types of vases and painted on several different types as well.Date: 510-500 BC Type: Calyx Krater Potter: Unknown Height: 46cms Painter: Euphronios-signed (on side A) Diameter: 55 cms at the neck Subject: Side A: Heracles and Antaeus Side B : Youth giving a flute recital. Before looking in detail at the vase, it is probably worth reminding yourself of what kraters were used for by the Greeks. The essence of these vase is the greater detail that the artists were able to get and the greater variation using brush-strokes rather than incisions. This is the first of a new type of vase, the RED-FIGURE type, which, as its name suggests, the opposite of the type we have looked at so far.

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