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GODS AND MYTHS

Historia Thebana / The war between Eteocles and Polyneices and the Seven against Thebes / The messenger summons Antigone and Jocasta to the fight between Eteocles and Polyneices

LITERATURE

Ancient / Euripides / Phoenissae

Further details

Artist or creator

Hellenistic

Date

3rd century BC - 1st century BC

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities) (inv. 1894,0516.1)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

H. B. Walters et al., Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, London 1893, no. G104; Saxl, Lectures, pl. 23

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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