Orestes arrives at Delphi, begging Apollo to free him from the pursuing Furies sent by his murdered
Orestes arrives at Delphi, begging Apollo to free him from the pursuing Furies sent by his murdered mother Clytemnestra (cp. Aeschylus’ Eumenides). Red-figure bell-krater from Paestum (Poseidonia), Italy, signed by the painter Python; ca. 330 BCE. Now in the British Museum. -- source link
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