File:Black figure Kylix (drinking cup) depicting Dionysus crossing the sea, ca. 530 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich (8958045452).jpg

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Description The most usual style of wine drinking cup in ancient Greece was a Kylix a shallow two-handled bowl on a short stem whose beauty of shape was enhanced by the wonderful art of vase painters. A masterpiece of black figure painting is this famous kylix by Exekias. It depicts the god of wine Dionysus on a ship with Pirates, who tried to abduct him. He transformed them all into dolphins and made vine leaves spring from the mast to act as sails. Dionysus personified man’s earthly passions. He was the ancient Greek god of wild and fertile nature, of the vine and wine. As a child he was fed the wine from a cornucopia, or horn of plenty. Wine was mixed with water, one part to three; dilution with water was not only necessary but a much-needed economy to make wine last from one harvest to another.
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Black figure Kylix (drinking cup) depicting Dionysus crossing the sea, ca. 530 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

Author Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
Camera location48° 08′ 14.83″ N, 11° 34′ 10.68″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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