Decoration: A: ATHENA WITH SPEAR, PERSEUS AND MEDUSA B: WOMEN, ONE WITH PHIALE, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 45.11.1
Publication Record: Annales d'histoire et d'Art et archeologie, Universite de Bruxelles: 13 (1991), 17, FIG.10 (PART OF A) Annales d'histoire et d'Art et archeologie, Universite de Bruxelles: 17, FIG.10 (PART OF A) Antiques, The Magazine: DECEMBER 1995, 797. PL.15 (COLOUR OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1032.55 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 442 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.136 (A) Borchardt, J. (ed.), Götter, Heroen, Herrscher in Lykien (Vienna and Munich, 1990): 139, NO.30 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 155 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 318 Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 76.1 (2007) 75, FIG.2 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.183, GORGO, GORGONES 301 (A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 59, PL.44 (A) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 17, 414, NO.136 (COLOUR OF A, PART OF A, B) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 414, NO.136 (COLOUR OF A, B) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 104, FIG.126 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF PELIKE. FROM SOUTH ITALY. POLYGNOTOS. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: PERSEUS CUTTING OFF THE HEAD OF MEDUSA. B: A KING AND WOMEN.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: THE KING: Πολυπειθες.
CAVI Comments: PAPE LISTS POLYPEITHES AS A SPARTAN OLYMPIC VICTOR AND AS THE FATHER OF THE
ATHENIAN TRAGEDIAN PHILOCLES FROM A SISTER OF AESCHYLUS. PHILOCLES DEFEATED
SOPHOCLES' OT. SEE STEMMA IN PA I, P. 34 AND BIOGRAPHY UNDER 14529. IT SEEMS TO
ME QUITE POSSIBLE THAT THE KING'S NAME HERE IS A MYTHICAL TRANSFER OF AN
ATHENIAN HISTORICAL NAME, AS ELSEWHERE IN POLYGNOTOS (DEINOMACHE!). IONIC LAMBDA
AND SIGMA.
CAVI Number: 5698
AVI Bibliography: RICHTER (1958), 128 AND N. 91, FIG. 96 (A, PART). — ARV[2] (1963), 1032/55. —
PARA. (1971), 442. — LIMC IV (1988), PL. 183, GORGONES 301. — ADD.[2] (1989),
318. — MATHESON (1995), 58, 227, 359/60, PL. 44.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
