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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 |