Euphronios Krater

    Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and Death) carry the body of Sarpedon off the battlefield while Hermes watches. Red-figure calyx krater by Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter).Formerly Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia L.2006.10, now in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico Cerite. Photo by Jaime Ardiles-Arce via Wikimedia Commons.

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    Date
    c. 515 BCE
    Medium
    Location
    National Archaeological Museum of Cerite, Cerveteri, Italy
    Image Credit

    Hades and Persephone holding court, detail from an Apulian red-figure krater

      Hades and Persephone holding court from their palace. Detail from an Apulian red-figure volute krater attributed to White Sakkos Painter, Antikensammlung Kiel Inv. B 585. Photo by  Marcus Cyron via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0

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      License
      Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
      Date
      c. 320 BCE
      Medium
      Location
      Antikensammlung Kiel
      Image Credit

      Medea boiling the ram, detail of a black-figure neck amphora

        Medea demonstrates her alleged ability to reverse aging by producing a young ram from the pot in which she boiled butchered pieces of an old ram in a magic potion. Black-figure neck amphora, British Museum 1837, 0609.62. Image via the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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        Type
        Image
        License
        Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
        Date
        510-500 BCE
        Medium
        Location
        British Museum

        Herakles and the gods fighting the giants, detail of a black-figure amphora in the style of the Lysippides Painter

          Zeus, Herakles, and Athena fight the giants. Detail of a black-figure amphora in the style of the Lysippides Painter, British Museum 1839,1109.3. Image via the British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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          License
          Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
          Date
          c. 520-500 BCE
          Medium
          Location
          British Museum