Poseidon, the brother of Zeus and Hades, was the god of the sea. He also created fresh water springs; and the great springs at Lerna in the southern Peloponnesos gushed forth as a result of his pursuit of Amymone, the daughter of the king of Argos.
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Title:Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)
Artist:Attributed to the Phiale Painter
Period:Classical
Date:ca. 440 BCE
Culture:Greek, Attic
Medium:Terracotta; red-figure
Dimensions:H. 17 7/16 in. (44.3 cm); diameter 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm)
Classification:Vases
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number:17.230.35
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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1950. The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, 3rd edn. pp. 173, 517, fig. 493, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 99, 240, pl. 80f, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1958[1946]. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey, Revised Edition, 2nd edn. pp. 116, 122, figs. 33e, 91, New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Reeder, Ellen D., Sally Humphreys, Prof. Mary R. Lefkowitz, Francois Lissarrague, Prof. Margot Schmidt, Prof. H. Alan Shapiro, Christianne Sourvinou-Inwood, Prof. Andrew F. Stewart, Froma Zeitlin, Carol Benson, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. 1995. "Women in Classical Greece." Pandora: Women in Classical Greece. pp. 356–57, fig. 113, Detail page 14, figure 1, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery.
Cook, Brian. 2002. "Red-figured Lekythoi by the Phiale Painter." Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, Mr. Andrew J. Clark and Dr. Jasper Gaunt, eds. p. 100, Amsterdam: Allard Pierson Stichting, Amsterdam.
Kaminski, G. 2003. "Aspekte weiblicher Nacktheit und Entblossung in ihrer Zeitlichkeit und Zeitlosigkeit." Zum Verhältnis von Raum und Zeit in der griechischen Kunst : Passavant-Symposion, 8. bis 10. Dezember 2000, Peter C. Bol, ed. p. 83 n. 22, fig. 29, pl. 15, Möhnesee: Bibliopolis.
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