The krater was discovered buried, as a funerary urn for a Thessalian aristocrat whose name is engraved on the vase: Astiouneios, son of Anaxagoras, from Larissa. Large metalwork vessels are extremely rare survivals in Ancient Greek art, and the Derveni Krater is the outstanding survival from Hellenistic art, as the Vix Krater is from the Archaic period. It is dated to the 4th century BC, and was probably made in Athens. Weighing 40 kg, it is made of a bronze with a high tin content of about 15%, which endows it with a superb golden sheen without use of any gold at all. The Derveni Krater is a volute krater, the most elaborate of its type, discovered in 1962 in a tomb at Derveni, not far from Thessaloniki, and displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The paper deals with Dionysos as god of women and god of epiphany with the inclusion of mortals in his retinue with the promise of a blessed afterlife that is projected onto him with Dionysos as fighter and with Dionysos as the most human god.Inv. B1, Archaeological Museum of Thessalonikiįunerary inscription in the Thessalian dialect of ancient GreekĤ0☄3′13″N 22★8′17.2″E / 40.72028°N 22.971444☎ / 40.72028 22.971444 It aims to focus on aspects that seem to be characteristic of Dionysos, aspects that effectively make him a ‘different god’. The present essay will use some of this material, but will look at it from a different angle. The media discussed included painted vases, mosaics, luxury items, votive reliefs, cult statues and sculptured altar friezes.

Several contributions to the Berlin conference dealt with the presentation of Dionysos in art.1 Chronologically, the contributions ranged from the 6th century B.C. painted vases and sculptured sarcophagi as subgenres of the visual arts, do not present Dionysos in exactly the same way: factors such as the aims of the customer or the producer as well as the context of the reception of the work in question have to be taken into consideration, too.

Even the different subgenres of one and the same genre, e. What we are told about the god is also a question of genre – the main ones of interest here are literature, visual arts and performing arts, especially theatre.

'The specific nature of Dionysos’ ‘difference’ does not only depend on a given epoch and its intellectual and historical background.

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