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

Medea (center left) stands in front of a lebes (center right) on a tripod over a fire, out of which the front half of a ram appears. Her left hand is raised in command; she wears a mitra, embroidered chiton, and striped himation. Behind her sits a white-haired Pelias, he holds a staff in his left hand. Pelias' daughters, Antinoe and Asteropeia stand on the opposite side of the lebes (right) one has her right hand raised in astonishment.

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.

Online Resources
British Museum
Associated Passages
463-489
Type
Image
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Date
510-500 BCE
Medium
terracotta
Location
British Museum
Image Credit
© Trustees of the British Museum. Used by permission.