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L3.4 HERACLES & GERYON

Heracles & Geryon | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
Catalogue No. Munich J81
Beazley Archive No. 301469
Ware Attic Black Figure
Shape Amphora B
Painter Attributed to the Munich 1379 Painter or to the Princeton Group
Date ca 540 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Heracles battles Cycnus (not shown).
Side B: Heracles battles the three-bodied giant Geryon. The giant is depicted as three men standing side by side, implicitly conjoined at the waist. They are armoured and equipped with shields and spears. The hero wears a lion-skin cape and wields a sword. Eurytion, the wounded herdsman of Geryon, lies at his feet, and the goddess Athena stands behind him providing support.

ARTICLES

Geryon