Thebes/Boeotia (Greece), acquired in 1884Marble, 350-300 BC The hero is depicted on a dining couch (kline) as reclining reveller with wine cup and drinking horn (rhyton). A hero’s existence is an everlasting banquet (symposium). Six mortals approach him and his heroin in adoration from the left. Such images illustrate a common notion of the time, that of the afterlife as a paradise (elysium).

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