Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar), Classical, ca. 450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm), Vases, Obverse, the Greek hero Ajax seizes Cassandra, a Trojan princess and prophetess, during the sack of Troy, Reverse, a youth. A number of ancient Greek texts recount that, when the Greeks sacked Troy, Cassandra, the most beautiful daughter of the Trojan king Priam, took refuge at the statue of Athena, but Ajax tore her away and raped her, thus committing sacrilege against Athena
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