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GODS AND MYTHS

Diana / Single figure / With attributes / Bow and arrow
Furies / Myths / Althaea burning Meleager's log
Meleager / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Milan, Private Collection (sarcophagus)
Meleager / Myths / Death of Meleager / Meleager dying, alone

Further details

[Left to right] A female figure, perhaps one of the Fates or Furies; a statue of Diana/Artemis; Atalanta, sitting, and Althaea rushing towards her son's deathbed; Meleager on his deathbed, with his family mourning her; Meleager slaying sons of Thestius, with Atalanta standing on the far right.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

2nd century

Location

Milan, Collection Torno (formerly in the Palazzo Montalto, Florence)

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. 341-342, no. 282; Guntram Koch, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 6 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 6), Berlin, 1975, p. 121, no. 117

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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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