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Source Analysis
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Website 7.1: Dionysus Depicted on Vases
Using the Perseus website Look-up tool:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html
Consider these Dionysian scenes. All but one of the vases are typical shapes used in the symposium (amphora and stamnos for mixing, cups for drinking); the alabastron, however, was used for perfumes or oils. Why might it have been considered a suitable shape for a Dionysiac scene?
Tampa 86.15: Euboean Black Figure alabastron, Dionysos, satyr and
maenad, making wine
Philadelphia L-64-248 27: Attic Black Figure amphora, Dionysos on a
donkey, maenads, satyrs
Jacksonville AP.66.21: Attic Black Figure amphora, Dionysos,
maenads, satyrs
Cleveland 508.15: Attic Black Figure Cup, Dionysos, satyr, party
London E 66: Attic Red Figure Cup attributed to the Clinic Painter,
Dionysos reclining, while two satyrs entertain him
Naples 2419: Attic Red Figure stamnos, Dions Painter, depicting a
feast of Dionysos, with maenads
Berlin F 2290 26: Attic Red Figure Cup, Dionysos, maenads
Maps
Map 7: The Kleisthenic reorganization of Attica (page 173)
Blank Map 7 (page 379).
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