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H28.1B DIOSCURI & GIANTS

Dioscuri & Giants | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre S1677
Beazley Archive No. 217568
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Amphora
Painter Attributed to the the Suessula Painter
Date ca 400 - 390 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of one of the Dioscuri twins battling a Gigante in a painting depicting the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). The demigod is depicted as a horseman wearing a petasos cap and armed with a spear. The giants are draped in leopard-skin capes. The other Dioscuri also appears in the painting (see other image).

ARTICLES

Dioscuri, Gigantes

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Gigantomachia

L20.1 Gigantes

Thumbnail Zeus & Nike

T24.2 Zeus

Thumbnail Hera & Giant

K4.4 Hera

Thumbnail Ares & Aphrodite

K9.1 Ares

Thumbnail Hermes & Giant

K11.3 Hermes

Thumbnail Hecate & Giant

T16.1 Hecate

Thumbnail Artemis

K6.5 Artemis

Thumbnail Dioscuri & Giant

H28.1 Dioscuri