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O24.8 ZEUS & GANYMEDES

Zeus & Ganymedes | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Catalogue No. Boston 95.36
Beazley Archive No. 204081
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kantharos
Painter Attributed to the Brygos Painter
Date ca. 480 - 470 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A: Zeus pursues the youth Ganymedes. The boy holds a hoop and stick and the god a royal sceptre.
Side B: Zeus pursues the nymph Aegina (see other image).

ARTICLES

Zeus, Ganymedes

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Zeus & Aegina

O26.1 Aegina