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sileni are often shown dancing on vase paintings. The tutor of Dionysus is represented by a single aged Silenus. The retinue is sometimes shown being brought before a seated recipient: the tragic human welcomer of the
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The term 'marine thiasos' might be defined.. most correctly a marine group.. attending the marine god, Poseidon, however.. may not always be depicted.
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Nereids and Hippocamps: The Marine Thiasos on Late Antique and Medieval Byzantine Ivory and Bone Caskets
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followed the thiasus for a short while following his loss of a drinking contest to Dionysus.
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Mythological statuary in late antiquity: a case study of villa decoration in southwest Gaul
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Motto Anna Lydia; Clark, John R.; Byrne, Shannon N.; Cueva, Edmund P. (January 1999).
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Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa: Essays in Honor of Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark
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Even in the Skopas example, the main theme was the deliverance of the slain
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Other regulars of the retinue were various nature spirits, including the
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in Athens examined by Marcus N. Tod, "A Statute of an Attic Thiasos",
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1976), selects as an example a 6th-century vase, figs 39/A and B.
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Annual Report of the Director of the Department of Antiquities
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Domestic and Divine: Roman Mosaics in the House of Dionysos
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and agitated male nature gods in a state of heightened
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Bacchus in Roman Britain: the evidence for his cult
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Thiasos
Thiasus (mythology)

Attic black-figure
krater
psykter
Louvre Museum
Greek mythology
religion
Greek
romanized
retinue
Dionysus
India
Roman triumph
Nonnus
Dionysiaca
chariot
big cats
tigers
leopards
lions
elephants
centaurs
Poseidon
Amphitrite
nymphs
hippocamps
historical Greek society
Greek

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