Dionysos and Maenads
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This Athenian amphora from the early 5th century B.C., by the Berlin
Painter, shows Dionysos (holding a wine cup in his right hand, and grape
vines in his left) flanked by maenads (female worshippers of Dionysos).
Dionysos wears a wreath of ivy around his head and the skin of an animal
on his back. The women (one of whom also wears an animal skin) hold a
thyrsus (a kind of Dionysiac wand tipped with ivy) in their hands.
For another view of this god, see the Dionysos Scene inside Exekias' famous dinking cup. |
