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Bestiary Museum Collection None (formerly Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Catalogue No. N/A
GALLERIES Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Paestan Red Figure
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Shape Krater, Bell
Greek Vase Paintings 2 Painter Attributed to Python
Date ca. 360 – 350 B.C.
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Period Late Classical
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Detail of Hybris from a painting depicting Dionysus travelling in a wagon drawn by Silenus.
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The daemon Hybris floats above the wagon of the god Dionysus. She appears in the guise of a Maenad
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with a thyrsus (pine-cone staff) and wreath of ivy. The Greek word hybris has several meanings
Greek Vase Paintings 8 including "violence" and "excessive pride". In this scene she may personify the violence of the
sparagmos--the dismemberment of live animals by celebrants of the Bacchic orgy. Alternatively she
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may be an avenging spirit driving Dionysus to punish the hubris of men, such as Pentheus and
Greco-Roman Mosaics 2 Lycurgus, at the time of his earthly wanderings.

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