Showing posts with label Dionysos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dionysos. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The prehistory of Rome






































































































Sunday, November 6, 2016

Dionysiaca




























                                                      A mosaic from Dion - Dion Museum, Macedonia, Greece 
































































































Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Dionysos - Dousares



                                              Dionysos - marble (150 CE) - State Hermitage Museum






Sunday, October 23, 2016

Friday, October 21, 2016

Ancient Eastern Asia



                                                    Spirals on a prehistoric Chinese vessel






                                                               Chinese bronze vessel
                                                               (photo: Gary Lee Todd)


                                                              A labyrinth in Nepal




Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Chinese pyramids



Chinese pot (200 BC) with the Greek symbol "maeandros"











                                             

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Eleusinian Mysteries


Caryatis Kistophoros from the Lesser Propylaea.
On her head she carries the kiste (a box) ornamented
with the Eleusinian symbols (a kernos, wheat and poppies).









Monday, April 18, 2011

Dionysos

Dionysos on a  panther - mosaic from Pella







     Athanasios G. Angelopoulos, "Prehistoric colonies of the Greeks"  (1999 - Vol. 2, p. 13).
    The new color map was posted on 15 June 2012 - see also "Argonautica".