Texts and Contexts: picture syllabus, revised & reduced, May 2015
2. Dionysos, Drama, and Athens
Archaeological material: Theatres, theatre images, and Dionysian iconography
THEATRE Munich votive relief of piper
Theatre buildings Grave relief of actor, Lyme Park
Thorikos theatre
Athens, theatre of Dionysos DIONYSOS
Epidauros theatre Dionysian iconography to c. 450 BC
Kleophrades painter pointed amphora, Munich
Theatre images Douris Pentheus cup, Athens
Comic performance, krater by Asteas, Lipari
Herakles & Auge, comic scene, Lentini krater Dionysian iconography on later 5th-c pots
Orestes at Delphi, Naples krater Baby Dionysos, WG krater by Phiale painter, Vatican
Rhesus, Berlin krater Hephaistos’ Return, Kleophon painter, pelike, Munich
Rustic cult scene, Dinos painter, stamnos, Naples
Images and monuments of performers Spina krater by Poygnotos, Dionysian worship
Actor with mask, Wurzburg frg
Actors, Herculaneum stucco panel Dionysos with poet, Hellenistic
Pronomos krater Dionysos’ visit to poet, relief, Louvre
Please note: MAPS, PLANS, and DRAWINGS are NOT part of the picture syllabus, unless marked
1. Theatre buildings, 5th-4th c BC
THORIKOS, c. 500 BC
ATHENS, Lykourgan theatre
Theatre of Dionysos, c. 330 BC, and later
ATHENS, Lykourgan theatre
Theatre of Dionysos, c. 330 BC, and later
Theatre of Dionysus, Athens
Athens, Lykourgan Theatre of Dionysos, c. 330 BC
Model (M. Korres)
EPIDAUROS
Theatre at
Sanctuary of Asklepios,
c. 330-300 BC
EPIDAUROS
Theatre at
Sanctuary of Asklepios,
c. 330-300 BC
Comic stage Herakles & Auge
scene on Sicilian krater from Leontinoi
performance attributed to the Manfria Group (Lentini)
Paestan krater by
Asteas, 4th c (Lipari)
COMEDY on 4th-C SOUTH ITALIAN POTS
2. Theatre images on pots
Apulian krater: Rhesus (Berlin)
Taplin, Pots-Plays, no. 54
Apulian krater: Orestes at Delphi (Naples)
Taplin, Pots-Plays, no. 7
tragic myth on South Italian pots, 4th c
3. Images and monuments of performers
Fragment of bell-krater by the Konnakis group: Painted stucco panel from Herculaneum: Actors backstage
Actor with mask. 350-340 BC (Wurzburg) second half of 1st c AD, (Naples)
Krater by Pronomos Painter, from Ruvo, N.Apulia: aulos-player (Pronomos) and satyr-play chorus, c. 400 BC (Naples)
Pronomos krater, side B: Dionysian scene
Attic votive relief: piper and family, early 4 th c BC (Munich)
Attic marble grave stele of actor
4th c BC (Lyme Park, England)
Dionysos and
Dionysian iconography
Pointed Amphora by Kleophrades Painter:
The god Dionysos, 500-490 BC (Munich)
Pointed Amphora by Kleophrades Painter: Dionysos and maenads, 500-490 BC (Munich)
Death of Pentheus. Attic Red-figure kylix, ca. 480 BC. attributed to Douris as painter and Python as potter (Athens)
DIONYSIAN
MYTHOLOGY
& CULT ON
LATER 5th-c ATHENIAN
POTS
White-ground calyx-crater
by the Phiale Painter:
Hermes brings baby
Dionysos to Papposilenus,
Nymphs of Nysa attending
c. 440 BC (Vatican)
RF pelike by Painter of Kleophon:
Return of Hephaistos to Olympus
c. 430 BC (Munich)
RF stamnos by Dinos Painter: Maenads at rustic Dionysos cult, 420 BC (Naples)
RF volute krater by Polygnotus from Spina:
440-430 BC (Ferrara)
Side A: Dionysos-Hades(?) and Artemis Hekate(?)
seated in temple, approached by worshippers
Side B: orgiastic dance in honour of
gods on Side A
A dramatic poet and his mistress are visited at a symposion by Dionysos and his cortege of satyrs, silenos, and a drunken maenad.
Composition of 3rd c BC, marble relief of 1st c BC/AD (Paris)
