N18.2 HERAKLES & GERAS

Museum Collection: Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome, Italy
Catalogue No.: Villa Giulia 48238
Beazley Archive No.: 202567
Ware: Attic Red Figure
Shape: Pelike
Painter: Attributed to the Matsch Painter
Date: ca 500 - 450 BC
Period: Classical

SUMMARY

Side A: Heracles leaning a club converses with Geras (old age). He is depicted as a shrunken old man with large genitals and a walking stick.

ARTICLES

Geras