P. 266 (with art)

London, British Museum, H228, Etruscan hydria (“The Polledrara Hydria”), Theseus and the Minotaur.

BMPolledrara

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Journal of Hellenic Studies vol. 14, 1894, pl. 6 ff.

British Museum on line

Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.18.11

I cannot say why Bathycles has represented the so-called Bull of Minos bound, and being led along alive by Theseus.  Greek Text

Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.19.1

The part of the throne where the god would sit is not continuous; there are several seats, and by the side of each seat is left a wide empty space, the middle, whereon the image stands, being the widest of them.  Greek Text

Olympia, Museum, B3600,unknown, tripod leg, man and woman.

 

Brussels, A1374, Corinth, cup,Theseus and the Minotaur

brussels-theseus-minotaur-2

 

H. Payne, Necrocorinithia pl. 34, 6

Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, April 2023

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