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K11.3 HERMES & GIANT HIPPOLYTUS

Hermes & Hippolytus | 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 Hermes battling the Gigante Hippolytus from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). The god grasps the giant by the hair preparing to slay him with his sword. He has a winged petasos cap slung across his shoulder.

This image is montage of two photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Hermes, Gigantes

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Gigantomachia

L20.1 Gigantes

Thumbnail Zeus & Nike

T24.2 Zeus

Thumbnail Hera, Heracles & Giant

K4.4 Hera

Thumbnail Ares & Aphrodite

K9.1 Ares

Thumbnail Artemis

K6.5 Artemis

Thumbnail Hecate & Giant

T16.1 Hecate

Thumbnail Dioscuri & Giant

H28.1 Dioscuri

Thumbnail Dioscuri & Giant

H28.1B Dioscuri