Note 304 — Chapter V · EURIPIDES AND VASE PAINTING (continued 2)

Dilthey, Arch. 219, 1875, p. 71, followed also by Vogel, Scen. eur. Trag. p. 151. How do these scholars account for the appearance of Megara and her sons upon the ‘under-world’ vases where Herakles is also represented in his last labour of capturing Kerberos? This latter must have been finished and Herakles must have returned to the upper world before Megara and the boys could be thought of as in fact in the under-world.