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N17.1 LYSSA

Lyssa | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 00.346
Beazley Archive No. 213562
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Krater, Bell
Painter Attributed to the Lykaon Painter
Date ca 440 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Lyssa, goddess of madness, from a painting depicting the death of the hunter Actaeon. Lyssa is depicted as a Thracian huntress a short dress, high boots, an animal-skin vest and fox-head cap. She drives the hounds of Actaeon into a rabid frenzy.

ARTICLES

Lyssa

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Actaeon

K6.9 Actaeon