Enhance your decor with a large Ancient Greek Oinochoe with colors deteriorated like staying on the bottom of the sea for many centuries.Oinochoe is a wine jug and a key form of ancient Greek pottery. 5th, 6th century BC . First side shows Phaethon.Phaethon was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios in Greek mythology.Phaethon, challenged by Epaphus and his playmates, sought assurance from his mother that his father was the sun god Helios. She gave him the requested assurance and told him to turn to his father for confirmation. He asked his father for some proof that would demonstrate his relationship with the sun. When the god promised to grant him whatever he wanted, he insisted on being allowed to drive the sun chariot for a day. Placed in charge of the chariot, Phaethon was unable to control the horses. Second side: It is shows Achilles Consulting Pithia.Pithia is the setting of Euripides' play Andromache, a play set after the Trojan War, when Achilles' son Neoptolemus (in some translations named Pyrrhus) has taken the widow of the Trojan hero Hector as a slave.