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| Keywords: Antimenes Painter - Black-figure Amphora with Herakles and Apollo Fighting Over the Tripod - Walters 4821 - Side A.jpg This amphora pairs a scene of Dionysus with one of Herakles' exploits the struggle between Herakles and Apollo for the Delphic tripod According to myth Herakles traveled to the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi to consult the oracle but when no answer was forthcoming the hero seized Apollo's tripod prompting a fight between the two Herakles draped in his lion-skin and carrying a club menaces a youthful Apollo while Herakles' protector Athena and Apollo's twin sister Artemis remain on the sidelines On the back Dionysus encounters the lame Hephaestus god of fire and metalworking riding on a donkey as a maenad looks on ca 520 BC Archaic terracotta cm 41 5 28 accession number 48 21 6825 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown 1897 cat no 194 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Heroes Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; San Diego Museum Of Art San Diego; Alexander S Onassis Public Benefit Foundation USA New York 2009-2011 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Apollo in ancient Greek pottery Artemis in ancient Greek pottery Athena in ancient Greek pottery Heracles in ancient Greek pottery Heracles and Athena Delphic tripod Tripods in ancient Greek pottery Antimenes Painter Ancient Greek Neck amphoras Ancient Greek black-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum 520s BC pottery Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
