Plate 1 (fig. 1.4).
“Death of Talos,” Ruvo
vase detail. Album /
Art Resource, NY.Plate 2 (fig. 1.5).
Medea watches as Jason
uses a tool to unseal
the bolt in Talos’s ankle
held by a small winged
figure of Death, as Talos
collapses into the arms
of Castor and Pollux.
Red- figure krater,
450– 400 BC, found
at Montesarchio, Italy.
“Cratere raffigurante la
morte di Talos,” Museo
Archeologico del Sannio
Caudino, Montesarchio,
per gentile concessione
del Ministero dei Beni e
delle Attività Culturali
e del Turismo, fototeca
del Polo Museale della
Campania.1
2