30 Masterpieces of the Ancient World

Greek Vase Painting--Death of Sarpedon (1x19)

Air date: Apr 04, 2013

Visit the fields of Troy as phalanxes of Greeks advance upon the Trojans. There, according to the Iliad, Sarpedon was killed by Patroclus, a scene memorialized in Euphronios’s red-figure vase painting. Learn how artists represented death and what techniques artists used to tell a coherent story on a round vase.