Spartan Legions

Attic Black-Figure Hoplite Amphora

Vase (Attic black-figure pottery, c. 540 BCE) · Anonymous (Attic black-figure painter, c. 540 BCE)

This black-figure belly amphora depicts hoplites — heavily-armored Greek infantry — flanked by lions and sphinxes in the characteristic decorative-narrative composition of Attic black-figure pottery o