
How this came about is told by Nigel Spivey in a concise, stylish book that braids together the creation and adventures of this extraordinary object with an exploration of its abiding influence. It was decorated some 2,500 years ago by Athenian artist Euphronios, and its subsequent history involves tomb raiding, intrigue, duplicity, litigation, international outrage, and possibly even homicide. Please click here to download our Terms of Use.Perhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater depicts the body of Sarpedon, a hero of the Trojan War, being carried away to his homeland for burial. The Bank of England in ruins’, 1830, Photo: © Sir John Soane’s Museum, Status acknowledged, e.g.: “Joseph Michael Gandy, ‘An imagined view of Other websites, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright

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