Muses of Lesbos or (Aeschylean) Muses of Pieria? Orpheus’ Head on a Fifth-century Hydria

Authors

  • Sarah Burges Watson Durham University

Abstract

A hydria of ca. 440 B.C. which shows the Muses celebrating the inaugural consultation of Orpheus’ oracular head does not depict the Lesbian tradition about the head but one originally based in Pieria or Thrace and adopted by Aeschylus in his Bassarai.

Author Biography

Sarah Burges Watson, Durham University

Postdoctoral Fellow, Living Poets Project

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Published

2013-06-02

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Vol. 53 No. 3 (2013)

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