nant shape here but there are also some fragments of kraters. The wounded warrior Telephos holds the baby Orestes hostage at an altar, with Agamemnon and Clytemnestra rushing to save their son. THE LATE HELLENISTIC AND EARLY ROMAN FINE POTTERY FROM THE SANCTUARIES OF DIOMEDES IN. Two Furies flank her, while Jason and a distraught nurse and teacher approach the bodies on the altar below.Ī different tragedy unfolds on the other side of the vase, from Euripides’s Telephos (438 BC). Seeking revenge against her husband Jason, leader of the Argonauts, Medea has just slain their two children. She also gives her name to the city of Athens.
Goddess of reason, handicraft, wisdom, and war, she is the daughter of Zeus and according to legend, sprang fully grown from his forehead, dressed in armour. /rebates/2f3d-models2froman-red-figure-krater-camarina-sicily-837c0bac1476484b91a9419bb6ca299b&252f3d-models252froman-red-figure-krater-camarina-sicily-837c0bac1476484b91a9419bb6ca299b26tc3dbing-&idsketchfab&nameSketchfab+Inc. Framed in the center by a halo (recalling her sun god grandfather Helios), the sorceress Medea flies off in a dragon-drawn chariot. Ares half-sister is the Greek goddess Athena. The remarkable scene on the front of this vase relates to the famous tragedy Medea, written by Euripides and first produced in Athens in 431 BC. Near the Policoro Painter (South Italian, Lucanian, active c. The Met was dazzled by its size it can hold 12 gallons and. Red-Figure Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Medea in Chariot (A) Telephos with Baby Orestes (B), c. The return of the Euphronios krater was an international dispute that played out over decades before the Met agreed to send it back.
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