Douris and the painters of Greek vases . found on the monuments. It is a characteristictrait of the idealism in which the art of thefifth pentury delights. Anything in the formof anecdote or accident, all Ihat forms the woofof material facts, is only of slight interest to fears also to provoke the gods by extollingthe grandeur of Athens, and hence allegory andsymbol are used in preference. The Treasuryof the Athenians, raised at Delphi from atithe of the spoils of Marathon, glorified thedeeds of Herakles and Theseus. The pedi-ments of the. Temple at iEgina, probablymade after Salamis, sh
Douris and the painters of Greek vases . found on the monuments. It is a characteristictrait of the idealism in which the art of thefifth pentury delights. Anything in the formof anecdote or accident, all Ihat forms the woofof material facts, is only of slight interest to fears also to provoke the gods by extollingthe grandeur of Athens, and hence allegory andsymbol are used in preference. The Treasuryof the Athenians, raised at Delphi from atithe of the spoils of Marathon, glorified thedeeds of Herakles and Theseus. The pedi-ments of the. Temple at iEgina, probablymade after Salamis, show the Trojans con-quered by Homeric heroes. To celebrateGreeces second victory over Asia, images ofthe Trojan horse were placed on the Acropolisand on the slopes of Delphi. Industrialpainting conforms to the same subjects were frequently representedby battle-scenes between Greeks and Asiatics,but appear only to contain allusions tothe Epic, or else to the battle of Herakleswith the Amazons (Fig. 1), which recalls the. Fig. 20. GREEK HOPLITE AND PERSIAN STANDARD BEARER. By Douris. Louvre Museum. v.] A PRECIOUS RECORD 71 great deeds of the Greeks ancestors againstbarbarians. We may say that Douris gave proof oforiginality by frankly dealing with modernsubjects. A kylix at the Louvre, unfortun-ately damaged and restored, shows in theinterior an hoplite striking with his sword afallen barbarian soldier, who holds a standardwith two square-shaped flags (Fig, 20). Thistypical accessory leaves no doubt as to themeaning of the painting. A banner wouldnever be placed in the hands of a Trojan. Itis very probable that the victors of Marathonpicked up Persian standards on the battle-field with the spoils, and that we have hetethe reproduction of such a trophy. We lookupon this sketch of Douris as a precious recordof the army led by Datis and Artaphernes in490. For the vase is not of a style to be datedafter 480, that is to say, after the secondinvasion conducted by Xerx
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