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 Rospigliosi (sarcophagus)
Meleager / Myths / Hunt of the Calydonian boar
Oeneus

Further details

From left to right: Oeneus, Ancaeus, Atalanta, Dioscuri (Castor and Polydeuces), Meleager [charging for the boar]

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

3rd century (first quarter)

Location

Rome, Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi

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. 318-319, no. 251; Guntram Koch, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 6 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 6), Berlin, 1975, p. 94, no. 28.

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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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