Dido, Queen of Carthage

Black-figure column-krater depicting a charioteer in a quadriga and two youths on horseback (top) and two confronted youths with horsemen (bottom)

Greek (made in Rhegium in modern Calabria, Italy), Archaic Period, 540 B.C.

terracotta

British Museum

Black-figure neck-amphora with Odysseus and companions blinding Polyphemus, attributed to the Polyphemus Group

Greek (produced in Italy in the Chalcidian style), Archaic Period, 520 B.C.

terracotta

British Museum

Black-figure funerary plaque with scenes of prothesis (laying out of the dead) and chariot race

Greek (from Attica), Archaic Period, c. 520-510 B.C.

terracotta

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black-figure kylix with seated men and youths (and details)

Greek (manufactured at Athens), Archaic Period, c. 550-540 B.C.

terracotta

MFA Boston

Black-figure kylix with satyr carrying a fish and wineskin

Greek (from Attica or Boeotia), Late Archaic Period, c. 480-470 B.C.

terracotta

Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Black-figure amphora with Achilles ambushing Troilus (top) and a departing warrior (bottom), attributed to the Painter of the Vatican Mourner

Greek (manufactured at Athens), Archaic Period, c. 530 B.C.

terracotta

MFA Boston

Black-figure amphora with the arming of Achilles (top) and a group of warriors (bottom), attributed to the Camtar Painter

Greek (manufactured at Athens), Archaic Period, 550 B.C.

terracotta

MFA Boston

Black-figure lekythos with Achilles, Ajax, and Athena

Greek (manufactured at Athens), Archaic Period, c. 500 B.C.

terracotta

MFA Boston

Black-figure aryballos (oil flask), signed by Nearchos as potter

Greek (Attic), Archaic Period, c. 570 B.C.

terracotta

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black-figure hydria with Heracles battling the Lernaean Hydra. Attributed to the Eagle Painter. From Caere, Etruria. Etruscan, c. 525 B.C. Terracotta. J. Paul Getty Museum.  

From the Met:

Black-figure mastos with combat scenes

Attica, Greece, c. 530 B.C. (discovered in Vulci, Italy)

terracotta

Walters Art Museum

Black-figure lekythos with Heracles and Iolaus fighting the Lernaean Hydra 

Attica, Greece, c. 500 B.C.

terracotta

Walters Art Museum