#douris

Douris, Kylix depicting an athlete with discus, c. 500 b.c. x

Kylix with scenes of men and youths - homoerotic propositions.

Saucy Saturday and our ol’ pal Silenus is up to something on this Attic red-figured psykter (ancient Greek wine cooler). Signed by Douris and created c. 500 - 490 BC.

A woman at a washbasin, accompanied by a water bucket, a skyphos (two-handled wine-cup), and a wineskin, and encircled by a kalos-inscription.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, attributed to the painter Douris and the Euphronios Potter; ca. 500 BCE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.

Tondo: young woman in a snood washing her hands.

On his way from Sicyon to Athens to claim his inheritance, the hero Theseus defeats the bandit Sciron, who would force passersby to kneel and wash his feet, then kick them off a cliff into the sea.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, attr. to the potter-painter Douris; ca. 480 BCE.  Found at Vulci; now in the Antikensammlung Berlin.  Photo credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons.