Terracotta vase in the shape of Dionysus' head, 410 BC
"Some stranger [Dionysos] has come . . . fragrant in hair with golden curls, having in his eyes the wine-dark graces of Aphrodite."
-Euripides, Bacchae 230 ff
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| "Plastico" terracotta vase in the shape of Dionysus' head, ca. 410 BC. On display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, November 9 2009. |
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