History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
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History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)
Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp)
Mythology, Classical, in art; Pottery, Ancient; Pottery, Etruscan; Pottery, Greek; Pottery, Roman
B.F. B.M. B 309; Berlin 1886, 1898; Helbig, 31; Reinach, ii.
55, 5 = Baumeister, i. p. 660, fig. 727.
R.F. B.M. E 104; _Wiener Vorl._ 1890–91, pl. 7, 2 (Nikosthenes,
in Boston) = _Röm. Mitth._ v. (1890), p. 324.
Late. Berlin 3145 = Millingen-Reinach, 11; Athens 1931.
See also a very remarkable vase in _Forman Sale Cat._ No. 305
(now at Boston), where the same subject appears each side,
one B.F., the other R.F. (by Andokides).[1139]
III. _The Erymanthian Boar_ (see Klein, _Euphronios_, p. 87).
(1) The capture:
B.M. B 462; Louvre F 236; Berlin 1981, 2034; Naples 2705 and
S.A. 150; Athens 858, 860 (all B.F.).
(2) The bringing back of the boar (Eurystheus absent; Athena usually
receives the hero):
B.M. B 447, 492; Cambridge 57; Munich 694; Athens 1097 (all
B.F.).
[Illustration: FIG. 126. HERAKLES BRINGING THE BOAR TO EURYSTHEUS
(BRITISH MUSEUM).]
(3) Herakles hurls the boar upon Eurystheus, who hides himself
in a large sunk jar (πίθος):
B.F. B.M. B 161 (Fig. 126); Reinach, ii. 55, 1; Helbig, 37;
Louvre F 59, 202.
R.F. B.M. E 44 (Euphronios) = Furtwaengler and Reichhold, pl.
23; Louvre G 17 = _Wiener Vorl._ 1890, pl. 10.
IV. _The Keryneian Stag._
B.F. B.M. B 169, B 231.
R.F. Reinach, i. 233.
A dispute between Apollo and Herakles over a stag (Rein. ii. 56, 3: see
p. 34) may perhaps be referred to this subject, as the myth is not
otherwise known, but it is more usually Artemis who endeavours to
thwart Herakles’ capture.
V. _The Stymphalian Birds._
Found only on four B.F. vases (B.M. B 163; Louvre F 387; _Arch.
Anzeiger_, 1892, p. 172; and Munich 1111 = Reinach, ii. 58) and one
late example (Reinach, ii. 297). Herakles shoots the birds with bow and
arrow.
VI. _The Lernaean Hydra._
This subject, occurring only on archaic vases, has no very fixed type;
the Hydra has seven or nine heads, and the body of a serpent or of a
cuttle-fish. Iolaos sometimes assists Herakles, and in two cases the
crab sent by Hera is also visible.
B.F. Early: Reinach, i. 389; _Jahrbuch_, 1898, pl. 12; Reinach, i.
118 (6) = Louvre E 851.
Later: Reinach, i. 118 (1) = Berlin 1854 (crab); _ibid._ 118
(3); 118 (5) = Louvre F 386 = Millin-Reinach, ii. 75 (Athena
slays crab); Reinach, ii. 53 = Baumeister, i. p. 657, fig.
724; Berlin 1801 = _Wiener Vorl._ 1889, 7, 3: see also Athens
792 = Heydemann, _Gr. Vasenb._ pl. 4, 1, where two successive
scenes are given.
R.F. Reinach, ii. 76. Hydra has cuttle-fish body and ten or eleven
heads.
VII. _The Horses of Diomede._
Naples 2506; Reinach, ii. 297 (?).
VIII. _The Augean Stables._
Not found on vases.
IX. _The Combat with Geryon and Capture of his Cattle._
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