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Theseus, a slender youth with long fair hair, stands on the upturned hands of Triton before Amphitrite, enthroned in her palace in the depths of the sea. With her right hand the Queen of the Waters extends a greeting to the lad, while in her left she holds against her breast the crown which she will place on his head as a sign that he is the son of Poseidon. Between her and Theseus stands the noble and unusually human figure of Athene. From a red-figured kylix by Euphronios (early fifth century B.C.), in the Louvre (Furtwängler-Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, No. 5). See p. 101.