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T21.4 HERACLES & PROMETHEUS

Heracles & Prometheus | Apulian red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Catalogue No. Berlin 1969.9
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape -
Painter Attributed to the the Suessula Painter
Date ca. 350 B.C.
Period Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Heracles liberates the Titan Prometheus. The Titan is bound by the arms to a rock. The hero stands beside him wearing a lion-skin cape and holding a club. The slain Caucasian eagle plumets to the earth below them. The goddess Persephone, holding a four-headed Eleusinian torch, and a winged, serpent-haired Erinys stand witness.

IMAGE DETAIL

Prometheus Bound | Apulian red figure vase painting

Detail of the Titan Prometheus.

ARTICLES

Prometheus, Caucasian Eagle, Persephone, Erinyes

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Erinys

T40.4 Erinys