Interestingly, Leagros is also mentioned in Greek historical texts: forty years later he became a military general in northern Greece and perhaps even died there. One of them, Leagros, is singled out here – as he is on many other vases – with the designation kalos (handsome). Each of the ephebes is named by a painted label. The two sides depict six young Athenian ephebes before and after a round of athletic training, attended by their servant boys and a supervisor. The Berlin vessel, a kalyx krater for mixing wine and water, names neither painter nor potter but the large figural scenes between widely-set handles can be convincingly connected to works signed by Euphronios. His painting certainly matches that of Euthymides in terms of inventiveness and the fine figural rendering. With this phrase he recorded his rivalry with an apparently younger competitor, one who (if we correctly read the evidence) first painted and later potted his own vessels – thus developing an enviable career from worker to workshop owner. Shortly before 500 BC, the Athenian vase painter Euthymides wrote on one luxury vessel that he had painted it “as Euphronios never” could have done.

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