Syphnian Treasury: Demeter, Persephone & others

SyphTrea: Demeter & Persephone with Hephaestus

Demeter with grain & rooster, Dionysus with cup & vine. tc plaque fr Locri

Cult statue of Demeter, from Knidos

Grave stele of boy Tlepolemus, between Demeter (right) & Persephone (left)

Hades abducts Persephone, by G.-L. Bernini, Villa Borghese, Rome

Closeup of Bernini's Hades & Persephone

Hades & Persephone, terracotta plaque from Locri

Map of Attica and Euboea

Eleusis, sanctuary of Demeter, entryway

Eleusis, entrance gate with portrait of Emperor Hadrian

Eleusis, roadway into sanctuary

Eleusis, cave of Persephone = entry to Underworld

Eleusis, the Telesterion

Eleusis, Telesterion from above

Eleusis, Telesterion, successive plans over time

Black figure Dionysus with vines, cantharos, satyrs

BF Dionysus with satyrs & maenads, making wine

Red figure Dionysus with maenads, thyrsus, snakes

RF Dionysus & Maenad with attributes

White ground Maenad in a frenzy

Dionysus on a leopard, mosaic from Pella, Macedon, 4th c BC

Bacchus with tiger, Roman mosaic from Trier, Germany, 4th c AD

Dionysus and lion, SyphTreas, Delphi, 6th c BC

Boy Bacchus on lion, 4th c AD Roman mosaic from Tunis

Closeup of boy Bacchus from Tunis

BF Dionysus in a boat, by Exekias, ca. 525 BC

Bacchanalia by N. Poussin

Rending of Pentheus by Agave & Maenads, fresco fr House of Vettii, Pompeii

BF vase showing a dromenon with men dressed as birds

Athens, theater & sanctuary of Dionysus, from Acropolis

Athens, theater of Dionysus

Athens, theater of Dionysus, orchestra

Athens, theater of Dionysus, decoration of proscenium

Epidauros, sanctuary of Asclepius and theater

Epidauros, theater from the air

Model of a Roman theater with labels, Vaison-la-Romaine, France

Orpheus & Eurydice by N. Poussin, 1817, Louvre Mus, Paris

Orpheus, Eurydice, Hades, Persephone by Rubens, Prado Mus, Madrid

Greco-Roman relief of Hermes, Eurydice, Orpheus, Naples

Orpheus the singer, Roman mosaic fr Arles, 4th c AD

Orpheus the singer, Roman mosaic fr Vienne

Orpheus killed my a Maenad, RF vase

Hermes Psychopompos, with Death & Sleep, RF krater by Euphronius

Death demon, Etruscan fresco from Francois tomb at Vulci

Charon, Etruscan fresco from Francois tomb at Vulci

Head of Charon from Francois tomb, restored

Cerberus with Hades & Persphone, by Bernini

Sisyphus, Ixion, Tantalus in the Underworld, by W. Blake, 1790