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Acheloos Painter
( fl c. 525–c. 500 BC). Greek vase painter. His name vase was a Black-figure neck amphora (untraced; ex-Berlin, Antikensamml.; see Corp. Vasorum Ant., Berlin v, pl. 26.1) showing Herakles fighting the river god Acheloos. He is one of the few members of the LEAGROS GROUP (see below) with a large enough oeuvre to be given a separate list of attributions by Beazley, who viewed him as a genuine member of the group but suggested that his different outlook set him apart from the others. His choice of the larger vase shapes—mainly amphorae and hydria—is conventional for the group, but he also painted a number of smaller vases that appear on stylistic grounds to be later. His choice of subject-matter also differs in emphasis from the rest of the Leagros group: he liked to paint scenes with Herakles but not Troy, and he deliberately chose comic episodes. His other favourite subjects were symposia and the associated dancing; his revellers are usually middle-aged and corpulent, not the more normal elegant youths, and he frequently burlesqued the conventions of such scenes.
Part of the Vase painters family
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