PLATE LIV
Linos Slain by Herakles
Linos, the kneeling figure, has been knocked down by Herakles with a fragment of a chair, which can be partly seen lying on the floor in the background, and, as he attempts to defend himself with his lyre, is in danger of being struck again by another piece of the chair brandished in the hand of his pupil. The youthful comrades of Herakles, some thoroughly terror-stricken, others manifesting a desire to help their master, stand helplessly looking on. High in the background to the left is a writing-tablet. From a red-figured kylix of the style of Douris (early fifth century b.c.), in Munich (Furtwängler-Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, No. 105), See pp. 79, 252-53.
