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T16.3 HECATE & THE GIANT CLYTIUS

Hecate & Clytius | Attic red figure vase painting

DETAILS
Museum Collection	Antikensammlung Berlin
Catalogue No.	Berlin F2531
Beazley Archive No.	220533
Ware	Attic Red Figure
Shape	Kylix
Painter	Signed by Aristophanes
Date	ca. 410 - 400 B.C.
Period	Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of Hecate battling the giant Clytius from a painting of the Gigantomachia (War of the Giants).

Hecate slays the giant with a pair of flaming torches. The Gigante Clytius wears a leopard-skin cape and is driven to his knees by the brands searing wounds in his chest and thigh.

This image is a montage of two photos of the vase.