Thinking these to be "cow born monsters", they ordered the infants to be burned and instructed Melanippe to prepare the funeral shrouds. On orders from Poseidon, and anticipating her father's return, she exposed the children in a cow shed, where they were discovered by a shepherd and brought to her father and grandfather, Hellen. Here, the drama unfolds in the lower register, with the protagonists named by inscriptions, while the gods look down from Olympus above.Īccording to myth, Melanippe bore twin sons to Poseidon while her father Aiolos was in exile. His play Melanippe the Wise survives today only in fragments, but from an ancient summary of the plot we are able to reconstruct the story. The obverse with a native Italic warrior and his horse within an Ionic naiskos, the podium with scrolling, the warrior wearing a belted red tunic and a pilos helmet, holding a spear in his left hand and the reins in his right, to the right of the naiskosa seated female holding an oinochoe and a wreath, and a standing female with a mirror and a situla, and to the left a seated female with a fan and a situla, and a standing female with a cista and wreaths the reverse with four offering bearers around a stele tied with a black fillet, to the right a seated female with a cista, a fillet and a ball of wool, and a standing female with a phiale, two fillets and a grape cluster, to the left a seated female with a cista and a fillet, and a standing female with a situla and a mirror a band of meander with dotted squares encircling below, the shoulders with a band of tongues above a thin band of dotted ovolo, the neck of the obverse with a female head wearing a sakkos emerging from a blossom amidst elaborate scrolling, a band of key and a thin band of bead-and-reel above, the neck of the reverse with elaborate palmettes, a band of laurel centered by a rosette above, wave on the underside of the rim, dotted ovolo on the rim, palmette complexes below the handles, molded duck heads on the shoulders framing the handles the volutes with molded female heads, white on the obverse, reserved on the reverse details in added white, yellow and red.It is possible that performances of a tragedy by the Athenian dramatist Euripides inspired the picture on this krater.
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