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The Theatre of Dionysos viewed from the south side of Acropolis. |
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Dionysos seated.
From a ceramic plate,
Attica, around 520 BC.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin. |
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Dionysos mask.
on an amphora.
Attica, around 520 BC.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin. |
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Dionysos herm.
Roman, 1st - 2nd century AD.
This is likely a copy of a 5th century BC Greek original in
late Archaic style. Compare this herm to that of Dionysos' brother Hermes
on gallery page 6.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin. |
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Singing or talking Dionysos.
Roman, marble.
One of many copies of a Hellenistic original (270-250 BC) thought to be from the Athenian Sanctuary of Dionysos.
Altes Museum, Berlin. |
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Bronze portrait head thought
to represent the Athenian playwright Sophokles (circa 496-406 BC). Originally part of a full-length statue, 300-100 BC, probably from Asia Minor.
British Museum, London |
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Marble Portrait bust of the Athenian tragedian Aeschylus (525-456 BC). Roman copy
of a Greek original
of the 4th century BC.
Neues Museum, Berlin. |
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Marble Portrait bust of the Athenian tragedian Euripides (480-496 BC). Roman copy
of a Greek original of the
4th century BC. From Cumae.
Neues Museum, Berlin.
Photos: © David John |
More information and images will be appearing
on this page in May 2012. |
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The stage of the Theatre of Dionysos. |
Dionysos and woman sitting together. Detail of a ceramic plate, Attica, around 550 BC. Dionysos, again holding a drinking horn, sits opposite a woman holding a flower.
It is not known whether the woman is Ariadne, one of the god's other consorts,
or his mother Semele. Pergamon Museum, Berlin. |
Dionysos mask on an amphora. Attica, around 520 BC. Pergamon Museum, Berlin. |
Dionysos, holding a drinking horn, with two ecstatic dancing maenades.
A stamnos from Attica by the Syleus painter, 480-470 BC. Pergamon Museum, Berlin. |
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Reliefs on the hyposkenion of the Theatre of Dionysos.
Source: Adolf Boetticher, Die Akropolis von Athen: nach den Berichten der Alten und den neusten Erforschungen.
Verlag von Julius Springer, 1888. |
Marble relief in honour of the Athenian playwright Euripedes. The tragedian (centre), seated and holding a scroll,
hands an actor's mask to Skene, the female personification of the theatre, while Dionysos (right) looks on.
From the vicinity of Smyrna (Izmir), Turkey. Late Hellenistic era, 1st century BC - 1st century AD.
Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
Photo: © David John |
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