Images Pack:
Greek Vase-Painting and the Symposium – Performing the Self
1. Eye-Cup by Exekias (signed), ca. 540 BC, 13.6 x 30.5 cm: Munich 2044
Images on both sides and under handles, and also inside (tondo):
Tondo: Dionysus sailing, with vine growing out of ship, and dolphins surrounding
1 2 1 cont.
Exterior eyes, and scenes over fallen warrior (under both handles)
2. Belly-amphora by the Berlin Painter, ca. 490 BC, 69 cm high: Berlin F 2160
Images on 2 sides:
Hermes (named) with kantharos, caduceus, and oinochoe; satyr (named Oreimakhos,
‘Fighting-in-the mountains’) with barbitos lyre; fawn:
3 2 cont.
Satyr (named Orokhares, ‘Delighting-in-mountains’) with kantharos and barbitos lyre
4 3. Psykter by Douris (signed), ca. 485 BC, height 29 cm: British Museum E768
Continuous frieze of eleven cavorting satyrs, one dressed as Hermes, with a variety of
wine vessels
Kalos inscription: Aristagoras kalos, ‘Aristagoras is handsome’
5 3 cont.
6 4. Cup by Douris (signed), ca. 480 BC, 28.4 cm diameter: Berlin 2285
Images on both sides of exterior, plus tondo:
Boys under instruction in performing music and poetry; scenes of literacy
Kalos inscription: Hipodamas kalos, ‘Hippodamas is handsome’
7 8 4 Cont.
Side-view of exterior:
Tondo: Youth, naked except for sandals and hair band, washing himself down; basin,
staff, aryballos and sponge, stool, and cloak; artist’s signature