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Ovid Met.

Black-figure Attic lekythos, the Diosphus Painter, ca. 480 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 06.1070

Ancient Greek pottery vase (lekythos) depicting mythological figures and decorative patterns on a light background

Perseus escapes on winged sandals (talaria) from the scene of Medusa’s decapitation, as Pegasus springs from the severed neck. (No Chrysaor?) Perseus’s curved sword (harpe) is visible in his right hand.

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, 1400 – 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.