Bacchanalia2.0001_LovisCorinth

Met website
Herodotos 2.48-49
Euripides, Bacchae, passim
Ver. Georgics 2.380-96
Ovid Met. 3.528ff., 4.1-41
Ov. Fasti 1.353ff, 392ff., 6.319ff. 489
Apollodorus Libr. 3.14.3-4
Diod. Sic., Libr. 4.3
Philostratus, Imagines 1.18
Orphic Hymns 54 "To Silenus

Camille Corot, 1796-1875, "Bacchante in a Landscape," 1865-70, oil on canvas, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 29.100.598, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929.

Met website cites over one dozen articles;

Reid cites two:

Metropolitan p. 32, and

A. Robaut (1905; reprint 1965), L'Oeuvre de Corot: Catalogue raisonné et illustré (Paris), no. 1377 (calling it "Bacchante couchée dans la campagne")

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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