The early red-figure athletic scenes sometimes combine the athlete or athletes with a scene from mythology. This red-figure amphora, found at Vulci, signed by Andokides as potter, and among the earliest of all known red-figure pots, shows on side A two pairs of men wrestling and, on side B, the struggle for the tripod between Herakles and Apollo. In the scene painted on side A), the athletes are watched by a richly dressed youth with the “wand” that is the mark of the trainer or umpire. Each of the pairs has one bearded and one beardless figure, and the “trainer” is smelling a flower. On side B), the beardless Apollo, in a highly ornate short garment and carrying his bow, takes hold of one leg of the tripod that the bearded Herakles is attempting to make away with; the god and the hero are flanked by a fully armed Athena and by Artemis who holds an elaborate plant in her hand. The two sides of this amphora echo each other; in particular, there is a very close correspondence between the pose of Artemis and that of the “trainer” and between that of Apollo and that of the left-most of the wrestlers. Source: Robin Osborne. “The Transformation of Athens”. iBooks. CAV / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk Attic red-figure type A amphora H. 58,3 cm with lid Attributed to Andokides as potter by signature ca. 520. Found at Vulci, Berlin, Antikensammlung, F 2159