Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater Fragment

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The Syleus Painter was a vase-painter who decorated pottery using the red-figure technique in Athens during the early 400s B.C. As with most vase-painters, his real name is unknown and he is identified only by the stylistic traits of his work. He is called the Syleus Painter because one of his vases, now in Copenhagen, shows the Greek hero Herakles fighting the villain Syleus. The Syleus Painter m