Decoration: A: HERAKLES ATTACKING GERAS, WITH WALKING STICK B: POSEIDON
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G234
Publication Record: Albersmeier, S. (ed.), Heroes, Mortals and Myths in ancient Greece (Baltimore, 2009): 32, FIG.9 (A) Archeologia Classica: 24 (1972) PL.94.1 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 286.16, 1642 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 175.11 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 109.6 Bremmer, J. and Erskine, A. (eds.), The Gods of Ancient Greece, Identities and Transformations (Edinburgh, 2010): 240, FIG.12.4 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 104 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 209 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 6, III.IC.36, III.IC.37, PL.(427) 48.1-6 View Whole CVA Plates Dover, K., Greek Homosexuality (London, 1978): R 422 (PART OF A) Flaceliere, R. and Devambez, P., Heracles, Images & Recits (Paris, 1966): PL.19 (A) Foxhall, L. and Salmon, J. (eds.), Thinking Men, Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (London, 1998): 53, PL.14 (A) Garland, R., The Eye of the Beholder, Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World (London, 1995): FIGS.50-51 (A, PART OF A) Harrison, J., Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Cambridge, 1903): 174, FIG.18 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention, Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): 33, FIGS.8.1-4 (COLOUR OF A AND PARTS OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.101, GERAS 4 (A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 148, 152, FIG.86 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A) Nowak, C. and Winkler-Horacek, L. (eds.), Auf der Suche nach der Wirklichkeit, Realismen in der griechischen Plastik. Begleitbuch zu einer Ausstellung der Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Freien Universität Berlin (Rahden, 2018): 194, FIG.2 (A) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.493 (A) Philologus: 50 (1891) PL.1 (A) Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): PL.131 Roscher, W., Lexicon der griechischen und romischen Mythologie (Leipzig, 1884-1937): 2083.2 Sanchez-Fernandez, C. et al. (eds.), Dioses, heroes y atletas. La imagen del cuerpo en la Grecia antigua (Madrid, 2015): 193, FIG.2 (A) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 90, FIG.44 (A) Wünsche, R. (ed.), Herakles, Herkules, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2003): 234, FIG.38.1-2 (A, PARTS OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Chiusi? Geras Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Geras. B: Poseidon.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of Geras' lower left arm: Γερας, retr.
CAVI Comments: Geras is inscribed also on London E 290, q.v. Bibl. on the subject: Beazley
(1949–51), 18-20. Brommer (1952), 60-73. Shapiro, LIMC, s.v. Geras. All three
mention this vase.
CAVI Number: 6516
AVI Bibliography: Photo (A). — E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 6, France 9 (1929), III I c, pl. 48,1-6.
— ARV[2] (1963), 286/16, 1642. — LIMC iv (1988), 181, Geras 4. — Add.[2] (1989),
209. — Shapiro (1993), 238/35, 90, fig. 44 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
