Figure 94

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Photograph by Bibi Saint-Pol, PD

Croesus prepared to burn on the pyre, perhaps a symbol of death and immortality or apotheōsis. There are various accounts of his escape (Herodotus Hist. 1.86–87; Bacchylides Ep. 3.23–62). Side A from an Attic red-figure amphora, ca. 500–490 BC. Louvre G 197