La veste/trappola di Agamennone fra realtà drammatica e immaginario pittorico

Taking as a starting point I. Nova’s discussion of the scene of Agamemnon’s death painted in the well-known krater Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 63.1246, the article discusses the nature of the deadly peplos which entangles the king, and the relationship between the vase and Aeschylus’ treatment of the same subject. Though independently of each other, the two artists seem to have conceived the cloth in a similar way; it is also possible that the painter has intended to represent Agamemnon as still wet after the bath. This latter remains however a controversial point.