PLATE XXVI
Lapiths and Centaurs
In this scene three separate combats are being enacted. In that on the right, a Centaur is wielding a tall tripod against a Lapith and parrying the blow of a dagger. The Centaur of the central group is with one hand forcibly drawing his antagonist toward himself and with the other hand clenched is beating him in the face. At the left a Lapith and a Centaur are battling, the one with a double-axe, and the other with the neck of a broken jar. From a red-figured kylix by Aristophanes (late fifth century b.c.), in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Furtwangler-Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, No. 129). See pp. 104-05.
