Chapter 2 analyzes an Athenian vase painting by Douris that is as unique as it is mysterious: Jason in the dragon’s maw. Traditional scholars have never reached a consensus about its meaning and have proposed various and often contradictory or mutually exclusive interpretations. On the basis of a critical survey of the painting’s reception history, this chapter proposes an approach that has been entirely neglected so far. It extends our appreciation of Douris’ sophistication into the age of moving images, adducing Aristotle’s concept of “the Now,” Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s “fruitful moment,” Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment,” and Agnès Varda’s approach to photography and cinema. In cases like the one presented here, long-standing irresolution about an ancient work of art can be overcome when it is related to later works, even those of a kind that could not yet have existed when the original was created.