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T16.1 HECATE & GIANT CLYTIUS

Hecate & Clytius | 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 Hecate battling the Gigante Clytius from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants). The goddess sets giant's hair aflame with a torch. She wears a knee-length skirt, Thracian vest and hunter's boots, and holds a pair of torches and a bow. The naked giant also brandishes a torch.

This image is montage of two photos of the vase.

ARTICLES

Hecate, Gigantes

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Thumbnail Dioscuri & Giant

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Thumbnail Dioscuri & Giant

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