The brothers Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death) carry the corpse of the Lycian warrior Sarpedon fro
The brothers Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death) carry the corpse of the Lycian warrior Sarpedon from the battlefield at Troy, watched over by Hermes in his role as psychopomp. From Side A of the “Euphronios krater”, an Attic red-figure calyx-krater signed by the potter Euxitheos and the painter Euphronios; based on the account in Homer, Iliad Book 16; ca. 515 BCE. Formerly in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; now in the National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome. -- source link
#classics#tagamemnon#ancient greece#classical mythology#trojan war#homer#iliad#the iliad#hermes#hypnos#thanatos#sarpedon#art#art history#ancient art#greek art#archaic greece#euphronios#euxitheos#red-figure