Decoration: Body: TYDEUS SEATED BY HEAD OF MELANIPPOS, ATHANASIA (NAMED) AND ATHENA (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 12.229.14
Publication Record: Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 51, FIG.31 (A) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 67 (1947), 3, FIG.2 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.702, ATHANASIA 2 Richter, G. & Hall, L., Red-figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New Haven, 1936): PL.138 Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 80, FIG.61 Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 36, FIG.3
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF bell krater. Unattributed{1}. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440-430
(Richter).
CAVI Subject: A: The Story of Tydeus and Melanippus: at left, portions of Athena dragging
Athanasia to left, away from Tydeus to whom Athanasia is looking; a bird to
right; at right, the bearded Tydeus is seated on a rock; below, the head of
Melanippus; at right, a tree. B: fragmentary: parts of a satyr.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Athena's head: [Αθε]ναια. Above the woman's head: Αθανασια.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Attributed by Richter to an Athanasia Painter, by whom no other vases are
known!
CAVI Comments: Cf. Once Rome (Rosi), RF bell krater by the Eupolis Painter, with the same
scene. Melanippus in the Seven Against Thebes wounded Tydeus mortally; T. was to
be made immortal by Athena, but was found gnawing M.' hand, whence Athena turned
away and T. died. In another version, Tydeus sucked out the brain of his enemy
Melanippus, whence the offer of immortality was withdrawn. The myth is found on
a third Attic vase: Beazley (1947a), 1ff. Three-stroke sigma.
CAVI Number: 5598
AVI Bibliography: BADB 7843. — Richter (1913), 157f. — VA (1918), 175. — Richter–Hall (1936),
i, 171/136, pl. 138 and 145. — Beazley (1947a), 3, fig. 2. — Neumann (1965),
151. — LIMC ii (1984), pl. 702, Athanasia 2. — Schefold–Jung (1989), 80, fig.
61. — Shapiro (1993), 230/3, 34-36, fig. 3.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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