Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Dioscuri / On horseback or with horses
Dioscuri / With other gods or heroes / Meleager
Dioscuri / Myths / Castor and Pollux participating in Calydonian Boar Hunt
Meleager / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Palermo, Duomo (sarcophagus)

Further details

[Left to right] Oeneus; Ancaeus; a male figure; the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) with horses; Meleager charging with a spear for the boar; Atalanta with a bow; to the right of the boar, fallen, the wounded warrior, is either Ancaeus, Enaesimus, Agelaeus.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

2nd century

Location

Palermo, Duomo

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Carl Robert, Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs, Bd 3, Einzelmythen, Part 2, Hippolytos - Meleagros, Berlin 1904, p. 315, no. 247; Guntram Koch, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 6 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 6), Berlin, 1975, p. 133, no. 150

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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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