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Carbonized wooden shutters from Herculaneum

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Wooden shutters, carbonized in the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, on an upper-floor window at Herculaneum (north side of the decumanus). Photo: © Roger B. Ulrich.

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Amores 1.5

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Roger B. Ulrich

Dionysis in triumph, chariot drawn by tigers

Mosaic of Dionysus (Roman Bacchus) standing in a chariot drawn by two tigers. Dionysus is dressed in a long chiton, with a cloak of what looks like fawn skin draped over his left arm and shoulder. He holds the reins in his left hand and a thyrsus in his right. Behind him is a nude young man, perhaps Ampelos. They are both crowned with grapevines. Pictured behind the tigers walking beside the chariot is a third figure, possibly a satyr, wearing a fawn's skin and carrying a shepherd's crook in his left hand.

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Dionysis in triumph, chariot drawn by tigers (3rd c. AD). Roman mosaic from a grand home in Écija (Roman Astigi), Spain. Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla.

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Amores 1.2

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Ovid

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Date

3rd century AD

Culture

Roman

Medium

mosaic

Location

Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla

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Carole Raddato

The Triumph of Venus

Venus is shown in the center of the engraving seated in a chariot drawn by two birds driven by a cupid. The cupid holds the reins in his left hand and a burning torch in his right, Venus behind him. Her left hand is on her hip, right arm raised holding a scepter. Venus wears a diadem and is haloed by light. The chariot is encircled by clouds. In the upper right corner is the sun pierced by an arrow; in the left corner is the moon similarly pierced. Various animals and people appear at bottom also shot.

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The Triumph of Venus (1608). Otto van Veen (1556-1629), Amorum emblemata figuris aeneis incisa. Antverpiae, Venalia apud auctorem, 1608. From the George Peabody Library.

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Photo: Johns Hopkins Rare Books, Manuscripts, & Archives

Associated Passages

Amores 1.2

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Ovid

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Agent

Otto van Veen

Date

1608

Image Credit

Johns Hopkins Rare Books

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