Sacred Athena

Athena defeats a Giant

Red-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Athena Slaying Giant (body); Satyr between Maenads (shoulder), c. 490 BCE. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.59.

Red-Figure Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Athena Slaying Giant (body); Satyr between Maenads (shoulder), c. 490 BCE. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.59.

Caption note Body scene is attributed to Painter of Goluchow 37; shoulder to Berlin Painter. The defeat of Enkelados is mythic, not a documentary battle. Full-vessel photo partially wraps giant around edge.

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