M26.1 THE DRAGON-CHARIOT OF MEDEA

DETAILS
Museum Collection	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Catalogue No.	Cleveland 1991.1
Beazley Archive No.	N/A
Ware	Lucanian Red Figure
Shape	Krater, Calyx
Painter	Attributed to the Policoro Painter
Date	ca. 400 B.C.
Period	Late Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Medea from a painting depicting her flight from Corinth.

Medea drives a flying chariot drawn by two draconic serpents. The witch is dressed in eastern attrire with a peaked Phrygian cap.