H1.4 PERSEUS & DANAE
Museum Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Catalogue No.: Boston 13.200
Beazley Archive No.: 202466
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Hydria
Painter: Attributed to the Gallatin Painter
Date: ca 490 BC
Period: Late Archaic
SUMMARY
King Akrisios commands that Danae and her infant son Perseus be set adrift at sea in a chest. The other woman is probably Danae's mother Eurydike.
ARTICLES Perseus
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