Francesca Zardini wrote:
>
> Why do Kadmos wear the hat in the Iconography on the vase-paintings?
> For instance in the red-figure Krater of Louvre (the photo is online), =
> or in the Calyx-Krater by the Spreckels Painter (Boardmann Athenian Red =
> Figure Vases. Classical Period, n=B0 19), or in the Cup by Sotades =
> Painter (Boardmann Athenian Red Figure Vases. Classical Period, n=B0 =
> 103).
> I thank you very much!
> Sincerely Yours
> =
> Francesca
>
Could it be because he is traveling/a traveler? That hat, if I
remember correctly, seems to be a common attribute of those on the road
(Hermes, for example, and that famous image of Oedipus sitting before
the Sphinx).
Stephanie Budin
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