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T34.2 THESEUS & THE MINOTAUR

Theseus & Minotaur | Attic red figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Catalogue No. Louvre G71
Beazley Archive No. 200739
Ware Attic Red Figure
Shape Kylix
Painter Attributed to the Euergides Painter
Date ca 510 - 500 B.C.
Period Late Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Side A1: Theseus grasps the bull-headed Minotaur by the head as he prepares to slay it with a sword. The beast brandishes a pair of rocks.
Side A2: Heracles wrestling the Nemean Lion (see other image). Theseus battling Procrustes (not shown).

ARTICLES

Minotaur

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Heracles & Nemean Lion

M19.1 Nemean Lion