0267Bacchanalia_Alma-Tadema

0267Bacchanalia_Alma-Tadema

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

Lawrence Alma Tadema, "Autumn: a vintage festival" (, bacchante with torch and leopard skin), 1877, Birmingham City Art Gallery

Part of the Bucerius Kunst Forum exhibit Dionysus: Rausch und Ekstase, 3.10.2013-12.1.2014, Hamburg

Reid cites Kestner, 1989 p. 277 pl. 5.6

Alma-Tadema, Bacchanalia

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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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