The wounded warrior Telephos holds the baby Orestes hostage at an altar, with Agamemnon and Clytemnestra rushing to save their son. Two Furies flank her, while Jason and a distraught nurse and teacher approach the bodies on the altar below.Ī different tragedy unfolds on the other side of the vase, from Euripides’s Telephos (438 BC).
Seeking revenge against her husband Jason, leader of the Argonauts, Medea has just slain their two children. Framed in the center by a halo (recalling her sun god grandfather Helios), the sorceress Medea flies off in a dragon-drawn chariot. This krater was meant to be used for wine because its calyx flower bottom was big enough to fit a psykter-shaped vase. One form of kraters was the Calyx krater one of the largest kraters used to carry wine. The remarkable scene on the front of this vase relates to the famous tragedy Medea, written by Euripides and first produced in Athens in 431 BC. calyx-krater Object Type calyx-krater Museum number 1870,0710.2 Description Apulian pottery red-figured calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Kraters in Ancient Greece The Ancient Greeks had many forms of kraters, not just the Dipylon kraters. Near the Policoro Painter (South Italian, Lucanian, active c. Lucanian red-figure calyx-krater 107 7.3 Oedipus. Red-Figure Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Medea in Chariot (A) Telephos with Baby Orestes (B), c. Read & Download PDF A Companion to Greek Tragedy Free, Update the latest version with high-quality.
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