Bacchanalia1.0346_LovisCorinth

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

Lovis Corinth, 1858-1925. "Homecoming Bacchantes," oil on canvas, 1898 Städtliches Museum, Wuppertal.

Cf. Corinth's "Bacchanal" (1896) and several other paintings and lithographs made by the artist throughout a prolific career.

H. Uhr, Lovis Corinth, California Studies in Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 94ff.

Also: Berend-Corinth, no. 131.

Muller 1960 no 555 - ill.

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, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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