Scene from a phlyax (mythological burlesque) play, showing Zeus as a pot-bellied old man walking wit
Scene from a phlyax (mythological burlesque) play, showing Zeus as a pot-bellied old man walking with a cane, a thunderbolt clutched in his left hand. To his right, an aulos-player pipes the rhythm for him. Campanian red-figure calyx-krater, attributed to the Dirce Painter; ca. 360-340 BCE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons. -- source link
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