Artwork Details
17-1/2 in.
Accession NumberGift of Mr. & Mrs. Eli Lilly
CopyrightMr. & Mrs. Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN; donated to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1947
Amphorai were double-handled containers used for storing and carrying oils and wine.
The Leagros Group was a late 6th-century B.C. workshop of talented artists, whose red-figure vases were just beginning to replace vases made in the traditional black-figure technique. On one side, Dionysus and his male followers, called satyrs, carry off two maenads (female worshipers of Dionysus). As the god of wine, Dionysus was a popular figure on amphorai and kraters, which would have been used at drinking parties, or symposia. His drunken, licentious satyrs offer the kind of raucous camaraderie that would have been at home at an all-male symposium.
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