To Dionysos

🏛🔮🪔🍇🍷🎭🌲🎭🍷🍇🪔🔮🏛 devotional blog/e-shrine

[nyxshadowhawk]

Devotional Art to Lord Dionysus by __Icaruus

[kebriones]

I keep thinking about little Dionysus being raised with satyrs in the woods and having no idea he's any different from them.

[nikoisme]

dionysussss

[stardayzzing]

[Dionysus Ref]

Okay so I made a full reference of him :)

I genuinely think he's my favorite Olympian design I've done so far? I'm making edits but yall will be seeing /adult/ Apollo soon too!!

[evilios]

I don't really see these being talked about remotely enough, at least proportionally to how funny they are to me, but my absolute favorite piece/type of Ancient Greek art has to be the drinking cups with eyes that stare at you.

Probably the most well-known, Dionysus Cup by Exekias, 540-530 BCE.

That's not pottery, that's a little guy.

A similar one from approximately 520 BCE.

Dated 525-500 BCE, from a Boston museum. This one just looks sad. I unironically want this in my house.

This broke containment into communities I hate so: trans women are women.

[evilios]

I'm glad people are sharing extra information about these in the tags and yes, you are all correct! Eyes on kylikes served a number of functions from what we can understand of studies on Ancient Greek pottery!

On one hand, there's an apotropaic function of averting ill (the same way that triremes would have eyes on the front parts). Some kylikes have Gorgoneia on them for the same reason!

On the other hand, as a drinking cup for a symposium, a kylix was both:

an object belonging to an inherently Dionysian space

an object used for entertainment

So there was an element of fun there too! Some kylikes have paintings on the inside, revealed once you finish your wine: scenes of sexual encounters, vomiting, Dionysian imagery, faces of Gorgon, and more. It was fun to wonder what yours was hiding.

Also, an interesting book on pottery in symposiums: The Symposium in Context Pottery from a Late Archaic House near the Athenian Agora

[starweaverblog]

Dionysus offering a glass of wine (what could possibly go wrong 😌)

[wildelotus]

[marinusj-art-deactivated2023071]

Dionysos, the giver of plenty

50x40cm

[rockyracetrack]

Dionysus doodles 🍇🍷🐆🎭

[josephinecarttanneur]

✨🍇DIONYSUS🍆💃🏻

[orpheuslament]

descriptions of dionysos in the bakkhai (tr. anne carson) that make me lose my mind a little

[kebriones]

painted over an older sketch of alcibiades I had made and turned him into Dionysus with cheetah marks for fun

[starweaverblog]

!!!! Afamgsg so pretty 🤩

[yume-fanfare]

modern social media should stop offering “sync with your phone contacts to follow them” options and start offering “block all your phone contacts so they never see your account” options

[vdoes]

normally I draw Dionysus with black hair but wanted to do something a lil different

ended up looking more like the Hades game version but that's okay lol

//print n stuff

[fruitjuucy]

“There is no cure for madness when the cure itself is mad” | Illustration for Euripides’ The Bacchae

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[cor-ardens-archive]

Martha Nussbaum, introduction to C. K. William’s The Bacchae of Euripides

[goldring]

Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther, François Duquesnoy, 1st–3rd century CE

[ganymedesrocks]

François Duquesnoy (ca. 1594 - 1643), The statuary is a 17th century copy after a Roman sculpted stone original.