#kaineus

Greek column krater depicting the combat between Lapith and Centaurs on one side and the slaying of Kaineus by Centaurs on the other.

480 - 460 BCE

Kaineus kinda makes me sad, there's like rarely any art that's not his literal death. ya know what

this is it, these are some images of him fighting normally.

I don't think I have anything but I gave it a quick look around. Most of what I can find seems to analysis from Ovid's version (x, x, x, x). Still using Ovid, when it comes to the bird question, there is one French article that analyses the theory of the bird being the phoenix (x).

I also found two archaeological analyses of a bronze relief and of a vase depicting Kaineus (x, x) but as far as I can tell there seems to be very little in our knowledge about a cult. However, the bronze relief from Olympia might be a good starting point for further research, since it at least gives you a potential location. You might also want to take an indirect approach and look for studies about the cult of Poseidon, and see if there is any evidence of a cult of Poseidon that could be linked to Kaineus.

Attic Black-Figure Trefoil Oinochoe Depicting a Centauromachy, Attributed to Class of Vatican 440, C. 530 BC

Depicted on this oinochoe is a centauromachy between the Lapith warrior Kaineus and two centaurs. Kaineus had originally been a woman, who after being seduced by Poseidon appealed to the god to turn her into an invulnerable man, which he agreed to do. As weapons were useless against Kaineus, the centaurs could only pound him into the ground, as shown here. The subject makes its first appearance on a bronze relief from Olympia dating to the 7th century BC, and then appears again on black- and red-figure vases during the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

oh no :( what was it about?

i can hear u guys saying this