DSST Art of the Western World Exam Prep

Answer - B - The two main figures depicted on this Greek amphora are Ajax and Achilles.

Key Takeaway: Many Greek amphoras depict a similar scene, with Ajax and Achilles playing dice. Although the intense emotions of the two men are not depicted, the men are ready for battle, with their spears at the ready. As with this amphora, many pieces of Greek pottery depicted highly-important historical and/or mythological scenes, some from The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Metamorphoses.

Achilles and Ajax playing a board game. Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 500 BC. Photograph by Bibi Saint-Pol. 2007. Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Accessed May 2010.