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T28.2 BOREAS & OREITHYIA

Boreas & Oreithyia | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 1972.850
Beazley Archive No. 5958
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Calyx
Painter Attributed to the Niobid Painter
Date ca 460 - 450 B.C.
Period Early Classical

DESCRIPTION

Lower register: Boreas, the winged god of the north-wind, pursues the Athenian princess Oreithyia seeking to abduct her as his bride.
Upper register: Peleus wrestling Thetis (see other images).

ARTICLES

Boreas, Oreithyia

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Peleus & Thetis

P13.5B Peleus

Thumbnail Nereids

P13.5 Nereids

Thumbnail Chiron & Nereid

K15.4 Chiron