Sunday, October 19, 2014

A Collection of Images: Part 7

Time for another set of photo's from the Dionysus book that I'm reading.

Below: Arrival of Dionysos, accompanied by Hermes, perhaps at the house of Ikarios, on an Attic amphora from the circle of the Edinburgh painter. Agrigento, Museo Archeologico Nazionale.

















Below: Scene of the arrival of Dionysos, probably at the house of Ikarios and his daughter, Erigone. Orvieto, Museo Etrusco Faina.
















Below: 42A. Athenian lady escorted to a festival by a silenus. Skyphos decorated by the Penelope painter. Berlin, Staatliche Museen.

















Below 42B. Girl swinging, pushed by a silenus, on the other side of the same skyphos

















Below: Girl swinging. Terra cotta from Hagia trida: reconstruction. Heraklion, Archaeological Museum. 44. Erigone mounting a chariot, with Dionysos in front of her, on an Attic krater. The he goat with a man's head is a representation of the Dionysian afterlife. Palermon, Museo Archeologicao Nazionale.

















Below: Maenad between the bearded Dionysos and a nude man, on the other side of the same krater

















Below: 46. Ascension scene in a variation of the 'goddess mounting her chariot' theme. Transcript of the painting on a Attic lekythos.

















Below: 47. Vase painting of a scene in the underworld. Dionysos mounting a chariot is about to leave his mother, Semele, and ascend.


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