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A lekythos (Ancient Greek: λήκυθος; pl.: lekythoi) is a type of ancient Greek vessel used for storing oil, especially olive oil. It has a narrow body and one handle attached to the neck of the vessel, and is thus a narrow type of jug , with no pouring lip; the oinochoe is more like a modern jug.
Winged Nike carrying a thymiaterion, Attic red-figure lekythos c. 490 BC Nike and Athena are both associated with victory, which has resulted in contestation over the origins of Nike. [ 14 ] According to a paper by Harrison (as cited in Sikes, 1895) Nike was once a facet of the Greek goddess Athena, who was composed of Boulaia (good council ...
Classical examples of a psychopomp are the ancient Egyptian god Anubis, [3] the deity Pushan in Hinduism, the Greek ferryman Charon, [1] the goddess Hecate, and god Hermes, the Roman god Mercury, the Norse Valkyries, the Aztec Xolotl, the Slavic goddess Morana and the Etruscan Vanth.
The earliest surviving representation of Nyx is an Attic lekythos (c. 500 BC), which shows her driving a two-horse chariot away from Helios, who is ascending into the sky in his quadriga at the start of the new day. [167] Most depictions of Nyx portray her as having wings, and in early representations she is usually shown riding in a chariot. [168]
Circe and Odysseus, white-ground lekythos by the Athena Painter, ca. 490–480 BC. From Eretria National Archaeological Museum in Athens, 1133. Kykeon (Ancient Greek: κυκεών, kykeȏn; from κυκάω, kykáō; "to stir, to mix") was an Ancient Greek drink of various descriptions. Some were made mainly of water, barley and naturally ...
Philoctetes at Lemnos, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 420 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης Philoktētēs; English pronunciation: / ˌ f ɪ l ə k ˈ t iː t iː z /, stressed on the third syllable, -tet-[1]), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa [2] or Methone. [3]
Detail of Greek mosaic with Peleus and Clotho, Paphos Archaeological Park. In Greek mythology, Peleus (/ ˈ p iː l i ə s, ˈ p iː lj uː s /; Ancient Greek: Πηλεύς Pēleus) was a hero, king of Phthia, husband of Thetis and the father of their son Achilles.
A Lekythos painted by an artist associated with Group R. Andreas Rumpf and Martin Robertson speculate that the depiction of the central figure, with his slanted head, morose expression, and seated pose, was influenced by Parrhasius. Parrhasius was universally placed in the very first rank among painters.