Attic Oil Flask Depicting a Scene from Seven Against Thebes

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Illustration

Ibolya Horváth
by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 25 May 2018
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This image of a young warrior cutting his hair before battle may reflect a scene in Seven against Thebes, a tragedy by Aeschylus. The seven heroes knew that only one of them would survive battle. Each cut a lock of his hair and tied it to the chariot that would carry home the survivor. This terracotta lekythos (oil flask) was probably made as a tomb gift c. 470-460 BCE. It may represent one of the seven heroes, or it may reflect the heroic death of an Athenian youth.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund

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Art, M. M. o. (2018, May 25). Attic Oil Flask Depicting a Scene from Seven Against Thebes. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8820/attic-oil-flask-depicting-a-scene-from-seven-again/

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Art, Metropolitan Museum of. "Attic Oil Flask Depicting a Scene from Seven Against Thebes." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 25 May 2018. Web. 26 Jul 2024.

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