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Monday, November 23, 2009

Illustrations of Erysichthon

Uta Kron, "Erysichthon I," in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae IV.I (Zürich: Artemis Verlag, 1988), pp. 14-18 (at 16), lists three probable representations of "Erysichthons Baumfrevel" on ancient Greek vases:
  • Archäologisches Kunstmuseum der Universität Bonn 2661
  • Stockholm, Nationalmuseum 6
  • Matera, Museo Nazionale 9975
Carl Werner Müller, "Kallimachos und die Bildtradition des Erysichthonmythos," Rheinisches Museum 131 (1988) 136-142, has photographs of two of the three vases.

Bonn 2661 (Müller at p. 137):


Matera 9975 (Müller at p. 141):


Mary Lefkowitz, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) p. 187, has a somewhat clearer photograph of the Bonn vase by Wolfgang Klein:


I can't find a photograph of the vase in Stockholm.

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