Object 10

Question 1

What is the object

Answer 1

Red figure kylix (a wide bowled drinking cup)

Question 2

Who is the artist

Answer 2

Attributed to Douris (between 250 and 300 are attributed to him)

Question 3

What is the location

Answer 3

Kimball art museum, Fortworth, Texas, USA

Question 4

What is the significance

Answer 4

Painted many years before Euripides play was first performed (the Bacchae was first performed post humously, in 405 BC)

Question 5

What is the date

Answer 5

C.480 BC- older than the oldest surviving play- not inspired by Euripides

Question 6

What are Agave and her sister wearing

Answer 6

Panther skins
Costume not from the same time period

Question 7

What is happening to Pentheus

Answer 7

Torn apart by his mother and her sister
We can see a bone an internal organs protruding from what is left of his abdomen

Question 8

Why does a satyr oversee the event

Answer 8

Follows Dionysus and reminds us that this was his will