Agaue and Pentheus (page 481 lower, with art)

Chapter 14: Thebes

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Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 10.221a-f: six fragments of Attic red-figure psykter by Euphronios, with torso of Pentheus (named) and two Mainades tearing him apart, left one named Galene. 

Museum of Fine Arts

P. Hartwig, “Der Tod des Pentheus,” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 7 (1892)  pl. 5

L.D. Caskey and J.D. Beazley, Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1931) no. 66

Beazley Archive Pottery Database

Scholion to Eumenides 26 – Aeschyli Fabulae cum Lectionibus et Scholiis, ed. N. Wecklein, Vol. 1, p. 413.

Greek Text

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#Pentheus

#Mainades

#Galene

Artistic sources edited by by R. Ross Holloway, Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor Emeritus, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown Univ., and Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, July 2020

Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2020

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