Red-figure skyphos.

Red-figure skyphos of the painter Pistoxenos.

Side A:  A music lesson is shown. The old man Linos teaches Ifiklis, the brother of Hercules, to play the lyre.

Side B:   Hercules is depicted going to music class accompanied by his foster mother (female feeder, the nanny), who carries the lyre.

About 470 BC

Schwerin, Staatliches Museum