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GODS AND MYTHS

Furies / With other figures
Meleager / Census of Antique Art known to the Renaissance / Known prototypes / Williamstown (Mass), Clark Art Institute (sarcophagus)
Meleager / Myths / Meleager killing his uncles
Meleager / Myths / Death of Meleager / Meleager dying, with Althaea putting the log into the fire

Further details

[Left to right] (Scene I) Meleager slaying the sons of Thestius; (Scene II) Althaea with Erinyes or the Fates/Moirai, burning the log of Meleager; (Scene III) Meleager on his deathbed, with Oeneus on the left and Atalanta on the right.

Artist or creator

Ancient Roman

Date

180 - 190

Location

Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (formerly Wilton House, collection Earl of Pembroke)

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. 334-335, no. 275; Guntram Koch, Die mythologischen Sarkophage, vol. 6 (Die antiken Sarkophagreliefs 12, 6), Berlin, 1975, pp. 123-124, no. 122.

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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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