Phineus and the Harpuiai (page 355 with art)

Chapter 12: Iason and the Argo

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Thessalonike, ex Andreadis Collection.  Corinthian column krater.  Phieus aznd other figures.

andreadis

American Journal of Archaeology

Soph fr 710 R – Sophokles, Phineus – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 4, p. 487, ed. S.L. Radt. Göttingen 1977.

(Instead of being blind?), his eyes were opened and his pupils became brilliant, when he met with the kindly Asklepios …

710 note 2

The researchers … say that Asklepios was blasted by a thunderbolt …  Stesichoros (PMG 194)  on one hand saying that he restored some of those attacking Thebes … but Philarchos  (81F18) [says that it was] because in the ninth year he restored the blinded sons of Phineus, as a favour for Kleopatra the daughter of Erechtheus.  (Transl. Mary Emerson)

Wurzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum 164.  Chalcidian kylix.  Boriadai.

wurzburg

Perseus

Formerly Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, returned to Italy.  Attic Kalpis by the Kleophades Painter.  Pheneus and the Harpuiai.

getty-ex-kleophrades

Perseus

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Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2022.

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