| Abstrakt: |
An extraordinary, “Chalcidian” neck-amphora, attributed to the Group of the Polyphemus Amphora (one of the so-called Pseudo-Chalcidian groups), has appeared on the German antiquities market. It depicts explicit erotic scenes between Silens and Nymphs carried away in Dionysiac inebriation. The orgia, including a complex symplegma composed of five figures, are represented not outdoors, as expected, in a wild setting associated with the forces of nature that the protagonists themselves represent, but in a “civilized” interior, in an oikos, and more precisely – as the centrally positioned crater indicates – in the virtual space of the symposium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
