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On the poetic aspects of an early classical Attic vase image

Summary/Abstract: Two fragments of a vase painting by the Kleophrades Painter are examined, showing a satyr and a sleeping maenad, respectively. The visionary exclamation of the satyr (“[I see] two suns!”), recorded by a fragmentary inscription above his head, shows him in a state of joyful trance, induced primarily by the sight of the woman and the autoerotic activity he is just engaged in. These words, very likely a colloquial expression of any overwhelming experience in early classical Athens, match closely those uttered by Pentheus in v. 918 of Euripides’ Bacchae. In view of this remarkable correspondence between image and play, apparently not taken into account by Euripidean scholarship, the study seeks to reassess earlier assumptions about the psychological and ritual background of Pentheus’ words.

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