~Zephyros and Hyakinthos/White-ground bobbin.
Culture: Attic
Artist: By the Penthesilea Painter.
Date: Ca. 460 B.C.—450 B.C.
Provenance: Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Greek mythology, Hyacinth was a very beautiful Spartan prince and lover of the god Apollo. Hyacinth was also admired by the West wind Zephyrus, the North wind Boreas and also by a mortal man named Thamyris. But Hyacinth chose Apollo over the others. The couple indulged themselves in hunting and climbing steep, rough mountains around Sparta. With Apollo, Hyacinth visited all of Apollo’s sacred lands in the chariot drawn by swans. Apollo taught his lover the use of bow, of music and the lyre, the art of prophecy and exercises in the gymnasium
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