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T19.12 HELIUS, EOS & EOSPHORUS

Helius, Eos & Eosphorus | Apulian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. -
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape Krater
Painter -
Date C4th B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

The gods Helius, Eos and Eosphorus--Sun, Dawn and Dawn-Star--form the procession of day. Eosphoros is depicted as a winged youth crowned with a shining aureole. Helius and Eos drive four-horse (quadriga) chariots and are crowned with the aureoles of sun and the light of dawn. Fish and dolphins dance beneath the chariot-wheels as the gods emerge from the river Oceanus.

ARTICLES

Helios, Eos, Eosphoros