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Sotades Painter (fl. ca. 470-ca.450 BCE)

White-ground cup, Greek, c460-c450 BC. Illustrated is the story of Glaukos and Polyeidos, an old Cretan myth. Glaukos was the son of Minos, king of Crete. One day he disappeared while playing ball or chasing a mouse, and a long search failed to find him. Eventually the seer Polyeidos found the boy, drowned in a vat of honey. Minos shut Polyeidos up in a tomb with Glaukos' body, and told him either to bring the child back to life or to die there with him. As he sat in the tomb, Polyeidos saw a snake approach, and he killed it in case it harmed the body. A second snake appeared, saw its dead mate, went away and returned with a leaf which it rubbed over the dead snake and so restored it to life. Polyeidos picked up the leaf and applied it to Glaukos, with similarly miraculous results.
GR, 1892.7-18.2 (Vases D 5)

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART200997

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 1600px × 1231px

Photo Credit Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

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