Apulian red-figure amphora
Canosa di Puglia (excavations 1896)
340 - 320 B.C.

Side A. On the shoulder, Eros and Aphrodite. On the body, above, Meleager gives Atalanta the Calydonian boar’s skin; below, youths and women.

Side B. On the shoulder, Eros and women. On the body, above, meeting of the Phoenician princess Europa with Zeus, transformed into a bull to seduce her; the meeting is attended, under the vigilant gaze of an old pedagogue, by Europa’s friends, some of which are pulling the bull’s tail jokingly; witnessing the scene are Heracles, seated, Zeus, hiding behind Europa, Aphrodite and Hermes. In the lower register of the body, genre scenes.