![]() The link to this video is provided at the bottom of this page. Brian Seymour and Monica Hahn provide a description, historical perspective, and analysis of a Geometric Krater from eight century BCE. Overall the imagery, far from providing straightforward depictions of contemporary performances, tends to use rituals and narratives distinctive of dithyramb as vehicles for playing out notions of collective festivity, an aspect of crucial interest within the sympotic viewing context of the vessels. 5.4: The Early Aegean (3000700 BCE) 5.6: Black Figure Amphora. Contemporary polemics of literary/musical discourse are largely absent, as can be seen in depictions of Marsyas and other mythical musicians, where the vase-painters rather stress the prestigious nature of these great performances of the past, while generally avoiding allusions to their violent or problematic aspects. Attic Red Figure Calyx Krater, Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed May 9, 2023. ![]() ![]() Thus, the thiasos of Dionysos is repeatedly envisaged as a cyclical chorus satyrs and maenads can act as personifications of dithyramb and other performative genres, thereby unfolding outright allegories of ritual practice scenes of dithyrambic victory celebrations focus on the joyful character of the occasion. He derived his power from the contact with the ground. 1' 7' high - The krater depicts the struggle between Herakles and Antaios Antaios was a Libyan giant, a son of Earth. Two satyrs appear on the right, suggesting that the scene was inspired by Euripides' satyr play Cyclops. On the other side is a scene of Odysseus and his companions preparing to blind the Cyclops. Within the imagery of late-fifth-century painted pottery from Athens, a whole range of visual contexts can be made out, where dithyramb is referred to, if in a distinctively oblique manner. EUPHRONIOS, Herakles wrestling Antaios (detail of an Attic red-figure calyx krater) - from Cerveteri, Italy - 510 BCE - Whole vessel - approx. Pottery: red-figured calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) showing four draped youths.
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