#douris

[didoofcarthage]

Fragment of an Attic red-figure kylix, possibly depicting Odysseus visiting Achilles in his tent, signed by Douris and Kleophrades

Greek (made in Athens), 490-470 B.C.

terracotta

Getty Museum

[dumbbitchhour]

Douris, Kylix depicting an athlete with discus, c. 500 b.c. x

[plukascoded]

some concepts for a new story i've been working on! what if there was a computer and it sucked really bad...

(ask me about them please please please)

bonus:

[thecrankyprofessor]

Douris Met

Kylix with scenes of men and youths - homoerotic propositions.

[via-appia]

Saucy Saturday and our ol’ pal Silenus is up to something on this Attic red-figured psykter (ancient Greek wine cooler). Signed by Douris and created c. 500 - 490 BC.

[lionofchaeronea]

A woman at a washbasin, accompanied by a water bucket, a skyphos (two-handled wine-cup), and a wineskin, and encircled by a kalos-inscription.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to the painter Douris and the Euphronios Potter; ca. 500 BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.

[thecrankyprofessor]

Kylix attributed to Douris, Attic c. 500 BC, height 4.5 inches (11.2cm) x diameter 13.5 inches (26.9cm). Accession number: 1986.322.1.

Exterior: Youths competing (discus, oil containers on the wall)

Tondo: young woman in a snood washing her hands.

[lionofchaeronea]

On his way from Sicyon to Athens to claim his inheritance, the hero Theseus defeats the bandit Sciron, who would force passersby to kneel and wash his feet, then kick them off a cliff into the sea.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, attr. to the potter-painter Douris; ca. 480 BCE.  Found at Vulci; now in the Antikensammlung Berlin.  Photo credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons.