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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 (drinking cup) dating to 540–530 BC. It is...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (/daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of wine-making...

and Liberalia Dionysus Cup, painted Attic drinking cup Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenistic religion Maiuma (festival) dedicated to Dionysus and Aphrodite...

(died 550 BC). It is dated to about 565/560 BC, and is now in Paris. Dionysus Cup, famous for its painting, 540–530 BC. It is one of the masterpieces of...

Pindar and Sappho. The lyric poet Alcaeus composed hymns around 600 BCE to Dionysus and to the Dioscuri, which were influenced by the equivalent Homeric hymns...

with the classic eye cups. Probably even more innovative was his use of the entire inside of the cup for his picture of Dionysus, reclining on a ship...

Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter ( between 520 and 510 BC) and the Dionysus cup by Exekias (circa 530 BC). One of the masterpieces of Etruscan art is...

central Italy alongside the Latins. The 7th-century BC Homeric Hymn to Dionysus referred to them as pirates. Unlike later Greek authors, these authors...

Dionysus Cup, by Exekias, 6th Century...

Eye-cup is the term describing a specific cup type in ancient Greek pottery, distinguished by pairs of eyes painted on the external surface. Classified...

often identified with Dionysus, perhaps because of the resemblance of the names Iacchus and Bacchus, another name for Dionysus. By various accounts he...

(/ˈmiːnædz/; Ancient Greek: μαινάδες [maiˈnades]) were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the thiasus, the god's retinue. Their...

killing him. Dionysus and two followers are shown taunting the king. The cup is the "only well-preserved figural example" of a cage cup. The dichroic...

Bacchanal? Dionysus: In thy right hand, and with thy right foot raise it. Sometimes the thyrsus was displayed in conjunction with a kantharos wine cup, another...

believed to be an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, and it heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance...

Dionysus riding on a small galley-like craft in a painting from the Dionysus cup by Exekias, from c. 530 BC...

famous works is the so-called "Dionysus Cup", a kylix now in Munich (Antikensammlung 2044). The kylix falls into the "eye-cup" category and is decorated on...

Interior of the Dionysus cup, by Exekias...

romanized: thíasos) was the ecstatic retinue of Dionysus, often pictured as inebriated revelers. Many of the myths of Dionysus are connected with his arrival in the...

Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. They were called Olympians because, according to tradition, they resided...