Dish with Castor and Pollux Rescuing Helen
This dish shows Helen (later known as Helen of Troy) being rescued by her two brothers, Castor and Pollux. As a young girl, Helen was kidnapped from Sparta by Theseus, prince of Athens, and taken to his home as a potential bride where she was cared for by Theseus' mother Aethr...
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19954
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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2
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1328_Fnt_SL_T85.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.1328_Fnt_SL_T85.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.1328 |
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