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GODS AND MYTHS

Argonauts, Jason and Medea / On Bebrycia, Pollux is challenged by king Amycus to a boxing match and defeats and binds him
Silenus / With other figures / Miscellaneous

Further details

Silenus parodying the boxing exercises of Castor

Artist or creator

Novius Plautius (active second half 4th century BC)

Date

350 BC (circa) - 330 BC

Location

Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia (inv. 24787 (formerly Museo Kircheriano))

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

W. H. Roscher (ed.), Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Leipzig 1884, vol. 4, col. 486

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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