Dionysus Cup
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The Dionysus Cup is the modern name for one of the best known works of ancient Greek vase painting, a kylix dating to 540–530 BC. It is one of the masterpieces of the Attic black-figure potter Exekias
Inside of the cup
Outside of the cup
Sideview of the cup, focussing on the stylised face
Signature
Homeric Hymns
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The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth,
Dionysus Cup
…large eyes and a small nose. Two meanings have been suggested for the interior image. Most common is the suggestion that is a reference to the seventh Homeric Hymn, in which it is explained how Dionysus was kidnapped by Etruscan pirates, who were unaware of his identity. The god confuses their thoughts and causes…
The Dionysus Cup, a kylix painted by the Athenian Exekias around 530 BCE, possibly showing the narrative of the seventh Homeric Hymn
A Roman bust of Homer, considered in antiquity to be the poet of the Homeric Hymns, after a Hellenistic version of the second century BCE
A fragmentary painting, showing Hermes, from Stabiae, first century CE
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli: a fifteenth-century painting indirectly influenced by the second Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite