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| Iconography | |
| GODS & MYTHS | |
| Alcmene | |
| → Alcmene saved by Jupiter from being sacrificed |
| Further details | |
| According to Murray this vase may show a today lost version to the story of Alcmene, which may have come from a lost tragedy by Euripides: the enraged Amphitryon wants to sacrifice Alcmene, who is then saved by Zeus | |
| ARTIST/CREATOR | |
| Python II (active in Southern Italy, 4th century BC) | |
| DATE | |
| 360 BC - 320 BC | |
| LOCATION | |
| London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1890,0210.1) |
| Notes on photograph | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION | |
| A.S. Murray, The Alkmene Vase Formerly in Castle Howard, Journal of the Society of Hellenic Studies 11 (1890), pp. 225-230 |
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| RELATIONS | |
| British Museum |
| Acknowledgements | Record created with the generous support of the Dean's Development Fund of the School of Advanced Study, University of London |
| Contact | For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk |