Hedylogos

Hedylogos

Hedylogos

Figure depicted on ancient Greek vases

Hedylogos (Ancient Greek: Ἡδυλόγος, lit. 'sweet-voiced, flattering') is a figure who appears in ancient Greek vase paintings. A surviving example on a red-figure pyxis from the late 5th century BC shows Hedylogos, alongside his brother Pothos, drawing the chariot of Aphrodite.[1] An oenochoe, originating from close to Thebes and dating to around 370 BC, also depicts him alongside Aphrodite.[2]

Hedylogos and Pothos are yoked to a chariot, behind which stands Aphrodite. Attic red figure cylindrical pyxis, c. 420–400 BC, attributed to the Meidias Painter.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    British Museum 1893,1103.2.
  2. [2]
    LIMC, p. 122.

References

  • Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) II.1., Zurich and Munich, Artemis Verlag, 1984. ISBN 3-7608-8751-1. Internet Archive.

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