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K4.12 THE BINDING OF IXION

Ixion | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection British Museum, London
Catalogue No. London E155
Beazley Archive No. 212127
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kantharos
Painter Attributed to the Amphitrite Painter
Date -
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Side A: The death of Alcestis (see other image).
Side B: The criminal Ixion who planned to seduce Hera is apprehended by the gods Ares and Hermes. Athena brings in the wheel to which he will be bound for all eternity.

“If you only would bear in mind the fate of Ixion, you would never have dreamed of falling in love with beings so much above you. For he, you remember is bent and stretched across the heaven like a wheel.” - Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 6.40

ARTICLES

Hera, Ares, Hermes, Athena

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Alcestis

N12.3 Alcestis