Plate 5 (fig. 2.1). Medea, looking back at old Pelias (left), waves her hand over the ram in the
cauldron. Jason places a log on the fire, and Pelias’s daughter, right, gestures in wonder. Attic black-
figure hydria, Leagros Group, 510– 500 BC, inv. 1843,1103.59. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Plate 6 (fig. 5.1).
Realistic bronze ram.
Was the sculptor of this
life- size ram inspired by
the story of Daedalus’s
true- to- life ram dedicated
to Aphrodite in the time
of King Cocalus? Bronze
Ram of Syracuse, Sicily,
third century BC, Museo
Archeologico, Palermo,
Scala / Art Resource, NY.