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K32.8 EROS & ATALANTA

Eros & Atalanta | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Catalogue No. Cleveland 66.114
Beazley Archive No. 275976
Ware Attic Red Figure (White Ground)
Shape Lekythos
Painter Attributed to Douris
Date ca 500 - 495 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Eros, the winged god of love, flies after the maiden Atalanta in the race of the suitors. He holds a wreath of myrtle in one hand and a flowering frond in the other. Two more Erotes (not shown) follow behind the first.

ARTICLES

Eros, Erotes, Atalanta