Fig. 1.5 (plate 2). 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.
Fig 1.6. Detail of the Montesarchio krater, showing Jason using a tool to remove the bolt in Talos’s
ankle. Drawing by Michele Angel.