UVM: CLAS 42 MYTHOLOGY: Ambrose Art Lecture VI (slides)

University of Vermont
Classics Department
Mythology (Classics 42)

Art Lecture VI: Dionysus, Heroes, Chthonians & Satyrs in Art

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Hermes & Dionysus by Praxiteles ca. 350 B.C. (Olympia Mus.)
Birth of Dionysus (relief decoration of scaenae frons of Roman theater in Perge, Asia Minor) mid-2nd cent. C.E.
Dionysus in Chariot, 2 panthers, satyr, and maenad (another relief from above, Roman theater in Perge)
Actors with masks offering to Dionysus (Attic votive relief) c. 400 B.C.E. (Athens: Nat'l. Mus. Inv. 1500)
Dionysus and pirates (Attic BF kylix) 530 B.C.E. by Exekias (Munich: Antikensamml. Inv. 8729)
Dionysus and Adriadne (Roman sarcophagus 170-180 C.E., Rome: Terme Museum 214 (Dionysus discovers Ariadne abandoned on Naxos)
Dionysus and Ariadne, Erotes, maenads and satyrs (Attic RF krater) early 4th cent. B.C.E. (Athens: National Museum 12490)
Annibale Carracci, (1560-1609) Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne (Ceiling of Palazzo Farnese, Rome 1597)
Dionysus and Ariadne Wedding (bronze krater), Verghina tombs, late 4th cent. B.C.E. (Thassalonike Museum)
Dionysus and Sirens gathering grapes (Attic BF amphora) 6th cent. B.C.E. (Rome: Villa Giulia 38)
Dionysus with his retinue (RF pointed amphora by Kleophrades ptr.) 500-490 B.C.E. (Munich: Antikensamml. 8732)
Maenad (white-ground kylix by Brygos ptr.) c. 490 B.C.E. (Munich: Antikens. 2645)
Lenaean Festival in honor of Dionysus (RF kylix by Makron; potter = Hieron) 490-480 B.C.E. (Berlin: Antikenabteilung)
Athena and Marsyas: reconstructed drawing of bronze group by Myron (mid-5th cent. B.C.E.) (Vatican Museum)
Marsyas (Roman copy of bronze original)
Contest of Apollo and Marsyas (Mantineia reliefs) late 4th century (Athens: National Museum)
Apollo vs. Marsyas: Roman sarcophagus, 2nd cent. C.E. (Rome: Conservatori Museum)
Herakles: as infant, strangling 2 serpents (Pompeii: House of the Vettii) 4th style: 1st century C.E.
Labors: Lion, Hydra, Boar, Hind, Stymphalian Birds, Antaeus (Roman sarcophagus) (Rome: Terme 154592)
Mosaic floor of triclinium, House Labors of Herakles, Volubilis (Morocco) 2nd century C.E.
Erymanthian Boar and Eurystheus (Medallion from floor of #19)
Herakles and Hydra: Labor #2 (BF amphora) 6th century C.E. (Rome: Villa Giulia)
Herakles vs. Hydra, relief, (Athens: National Museum)
Herakles cleaning Augean Stables: Labor #5 (Metope, Temple of Zeus, Olympia) 465-457 B.C.E. (Olympia Museum)
Herakles vs. Apollo (RF amphora by Andocides ptr.) ca. 530 B.C.E. (Berlin: Antikenabteilung) Same image in a higher resolution.
Herakles vs. Achelous (Base of Tripod) Roman period (Istanbul: Archaeological Museum)
Hades (Pluto) and Persephone (rare example of Grk. painting) 4th century B.C.E. (Verghina: Macedonian Tomb ex. 1977)
Bicephalic centaur (Nicosia (Cyprus): Archaeological Museum) 11th century B.C.E.
Herakles vs. Nessus (Nessus amphora, ca. 600 B.C.E.) (Athens: National Museum 1002) (+ Perseus and Gorgons)
Introduction of Herakles into Olympus (archaic pediment: Herakles, Zeus, Hera ca. 580 B.C.E.) (Athens: Acropolis Museum)
BF lekythos with same scene: Herakles, Athena, Hermes (Agora Museum) 510-500 B.C.E.
Odysseus and Polyphemus (mosaic floor, Roman villa, Piazza Armerina (Sicily) early 4th century C.E.)
Cyclops forging thunderbolts (mosaic from pavement of Roman baths of Dougga, North Africa) 1st quarter 3rd century C.E. (Tunis: Bardo Museum Inv. A. 261)
Lady with Sphinx - Odysseus blinds Polyphemus - escapes Cyclops. Frontispiece for Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Book VI, a book belonging to Duke Matteo Acquaviva (1458-1529); illuminated by Reginaldus Piramus; Sphinx = Practical Wisdom; Odysseus an incarnation of practical wisdom.
Odysseus and Sirens (mosaic from Dougga, mid-3rd century C.E.)
Orpheus and the Beasts (mosaic floor from Jerusalem) Roman, 5-6th century C.E. (Istanbul: Archaeological Museum)

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