Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Dioscuri / On foot, without 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 / Rome, Palazzo dei Conservatori (sarcophagus)
Meleager / Myths / Hunt of the Calydonian boar

Further details

[Left to right] Oeneus and Atalanta (with a male figure between them; Ancaeus with an axe; the Dioscuri (Castor and Polydeuces) supporting Meleager; Meleager and Atalanta hunting the boar with other warriors.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

3rd century

Location

Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori

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, pp. 303-305, no. 235; Guntram Koch, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 6 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 6), Berlin, 1975, pp. 86-87, no. 6.

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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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