Note 317 — Chapter V · EURIPIDES AND VASE PAINTING (continued 2)

The fratricide, so common on the Etruscan urns, is rare on Greek monuments. (1) The group was on the Kypselos Chest (Paus. 5. 19, 6). (2) Pythagoras worked the brothers in marble (vid. Overbeck, Schriftquellen, no. 501). (3) One group on the Heroön from Gjölbaschi, cf. Benndorf, op. cit. pl. 24. A. 3. There are thirty urns representing the scene: vid. Körte, I rilievi delle urne etrusche, ii. pl. 8–20, and 36, and supplement. p. 261 ff. Cf. further Overbeck’s Bildwerke, pl. 5 and 6. An Etruscan mirror, which shows a composition remarkably like that in the inside of the Penthesileia kylix (Munich, no. 370, pub. Overbeck, Bildwerke, pl. 17. 3), and must be from a fifth century pattern, is perhaps the oldest of the extant representations. Vid. Gerhard, Etruskische Spiegel, v. pl. 95.