FRONTISPIECE.
APHRODITE ON THE SWAN.
Design from a Cylix in the British Museum. Cat. D. 62.
Plate from a photograph.
Subject : Aphrodite, holding a flower-spray, rides on a swan through the air.
Inscriptions : A(po<e<; (Aphrodite) ; TXavicov /caXo? (Glaukon is beautiful).
The design is polychrome on a white ground.
See Introductory Historical Note, page 20.
PLATE I.
DIONYSOS AT SEA. By Exekias.
Design from the interior of a Cylix in the Pinakothek, Munich. Cat. 339. D. 11*5.
Plate from E. Gerhard. Auserlesene Vasenbilder, Plate 49.
Subject : Interior.—The god Dionysos, crowned with ivy, lies in a galley in full sail. He
holds a drinking-horn. From the mast spring up two great vine-branches laden
with grapes. The sea is indicated by seven dolphins thrown on the field.
Exterior.—Each side is decorated with two great eyes and a nose between
them. To either side of each handle are groups of three warriors contending over
a fallen man.
Inscription : Round the foot, E^e/aa? eiroecre (Exekias made).
See Introductory Historical Note, page 13.
APHRODITE ON THE SWAN.
Design from a Cylix in the British Museum. Cat. D. 62.
Plate from a photograph.
Subject : Aphrodite, holding a flower-spray, rides on a swan through the air.
Inscriptions : A(po<e<; (Aphrodite) ; TXavicov /caXo? (Glaukon is beautiful).
The design is polychrome on a white ground.
See Introductory Historical Note, page 20.
PLATE I.
DIONYSOS AT SEA. By Exekias.
Design from the interior of a Cylix in the Pinakothek, Munich. Cat. 339. D. 11*5.
Plate from E. Gerhard. Auserlesene Vasenbilder, Plate 49.
Subject : Interior.—The god Dionysos, crowned with ivy, lies in a galley in full sail. He
holds a drinking-horn. From the mast spring up two great vine-branches laden
with grapes. The sea is indicated by seven dolphins thrown on the field.
Exterior.—Each side is decorated with two great eyes and a nose between
them. To either side of each handle are groups of three warriors contending over
a fallen man.
Inscription : Round the foot, E^e/aa? eiroecre (Exekias made).
See Introductory Historical Note, page 13.