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Italy / Castel Gandolfo / Villa Barberini

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Furies / Myths / Althaea burning Meleager's log
Meleager / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Castel Gandolfo, Villa Barberini (sarcophagus)
Meleager / Myths / Meleager killing his uncles
Meleager / Myths / Death of Meleager / Meleager dying, with Althaea putting the log into the fire

Further details

From left to right: Meleager killing the son[s] of Thestius; Althea with the Furies/Erinyes throwing Meleager’s log into fire; Meleager on his deathbed, with Althaea[?] and Oeneus[?] by the left side of the bed.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

230 (circa)

Location

Castel Gandolfo, Villa Barberini

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.336-337, no. 276; Guntram Koch, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 6 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 6), Berlin, 1975, p. 123, no. 121

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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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