Herakles in the Garden of the Hesperides with Eros, three Hesperids, and Pan

Pelike in the Early Kerch Style
20. Pelike in the Early Kerch Style
Hippolytus Painter (Greek, Attic)
Herakles in the Garden of the Hesperides with Eros, three Hesperids, and Pan
Clay, red-figure, ca. 375 BCE
Gift of Rebecca Darlington Stoddard
Photograph courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
1913.138

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Herakles in the Garden of the Hesperides
View of Side B
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Herakles in the Garden of the Hesperides

The drawing at left reconstructs the full narrative painting that wraps around the vase.

Herakles
View of Side B

A satyr pursues a maenad. A flying eros is visible on the right, holding a tympanon (drum) in his hand.

Pelike
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