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L3.2 HERACLES & GERYON

Heracles & Geryon | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre F55
Beazley Archive No. 301038
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Amphora
Painter Attributed to Group E
Date ca 560 - 540 B.C.
Period High Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Heracles battles the three-bodied giant Geryon. The hero wears a lion-skin cloak and wields a knotted club. The three-bodied is depicted three armoured warriors standing side by side, implicitly conjoined at the waist. Each is equipped with a spear and shield--one decorated with the image of a tripod and the other a flying eagle. Geryon's herdsman Eurytion lies wounded at his feet.
Side B: Dionysus and Satyrs (not shown).

ARTICLES

Geryon