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Pyxis depicting a herdsman with six Muses, c.460-450 BC (ceramic & pigment)

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Pyxis depicting a herdsman with six Muses, c.460-450 BC (ceramic & pigment)
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Greek school, (5th century BC) / Greek
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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ceramic and pigment
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Although this is the "name-vase" of the Hesiod Painter, it is now thought that the poet shown with a lyre seated on an elaborate stool is not Hesiod, but Archilochus, who was a cow herd before called by the Muses to poetry.

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