#aison cup

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Theseus wrestles Cercyon, King of Eleusis, who would challenge passersby to a wrestling match and then kill them when they lost.  From the “Aison Cup,” an Attic red-figure kylix depicting Theseus’ six labors, signed by the painter Aison; ca. 430 BCE.  Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid.  Photo credit: Luis Garcia/Wikimedia Commons.