OrestesANCIENT_CopenhagenPainter

OrestesANCIENT_CopenhagenPainter

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OGCMA s.v. "Orestes"

Athenian red-figure stamnos, depicting Orestes' murder of Aegisthus as Clytemnestra and Electra flank them, 500-450 BC, from Vulci, Etruria, Italy; Berlin, Antikensammlung, now lost, F2184; attributed by Beazley to the Copenhagen Painter. Inscriptions caption the names (some written retrograde) of Klytaimnestra, Oresstes, Aigisthos, and Elektra; also "Nikostratos kalos".

The vase's B-side depicts a "youth with spear between draped men with staff and sprig". (Beazley)

The image at right is derived from Hugo Bergstedt's (1909) Grekernas och Romarnes Mytologi (Norstedt & Söners: Stockholm)

Black and white depiction of ancient Greek figures, one man committing suicide, others reacting in distress and aggression

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.