Ancient Greek - 540 BC (circa) | The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

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GODS AND MYTHS

Bacchus / Myths / Bacchus and Ariadne / Bacchus and Ariadne together / With Bacchic thiasos

Further details

Attic black-figure neck-amphora. A female in between (not in this picture) Bacchus/Dionysus and a satyr. The female could be Ariadne and with her children by Dionysus or Theseus (cf. Homer. Od. XI. 321-325). The children could be Staphylus, Oenopion, Thoas, Phliasos, or Eurymedon.

Artist or creator

Ancient Greek

Date

540 BC (circa) - 530 BC (circa)

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

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Web resources

British Museum
Homer, Odyssey, XI. 251-5
Apollodorus and James Frazer on children of Ariadne

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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