Dyonisos Tapestries

Description: The Dionysos Cup is one of the best known ancient Greek vase painting, a kylix (drinking cup) dating around 535 BC. Dionysus - the Greek god of Wine - is sailing. Dolphins swim around his ship and vines grow from its mast.

Description: Eros is riding a Lion - or a Tiger - on a 1st century mosaic from the house of the Faun in Pompeii. After a 19th century watercolor

Description: Dyonisiac celebration from the Louvre K240 red figure Greek vase, ca 370 BC. A Maenad and a youg eros open, playing the aulos, a young Dyonisos rides his panther behind them and his adoptive father Silenus closes the procession.