Pythia Kylix

Question 1

Description:
Image of the interior of what?
Showing what?
named what?
seated on what?
holding what? (2)

Answer 1

a kylix (drinking cup)
The Pythia
Themis
a tripod
laurel leaves, phiale

Question 2

Description:
Opposite the Pythia is who?
Named what?
King of where?
Wearing what?
Why?
What do the names indicate?
What is Aegus asking?

Answer 2

the Consultant
Aegus
Athens
a laurel wreath
it is a mark of respect to Apollo
this is a particular consultation
What he must do to ensure he had a son

Question 3

Description:
What do the column and roof indicate?
possibly representing what?
Which is?

Answer 3

an indoor space
the adyton
the consultation room at Delphi

Question 4

Purpose:
What is the Kylix?
simply, what may the purpose of the image be?

Answer 4

a drinking-vessel
decoration, using a famous story associated with Athens

Question 5

Date?

Answer 5

c.440-430 BC

Question 6

Place of origin?

Answer 6

Attica

Question 7

Interpretation:
What is this the only visial source of?
From the period of what?
What is its use as evidence?
Why?
so may not reflect what?
instead only RESPRESENTING what?

Answer 7

a Delphic consultation
the sanctuary’s activity
questionable
it is art
the actual PROCESS of consultation
the central act of consulting

Question 8

Interpretation:
What may have been sacrificed to artistic considerations?
What strengthens the case for caution?

Answer 8

Verisimilitude (the appearance of being true/real) of representation
the mythological nature of the scene

Question 9

Interpretation:
Who points out that Themis is a goddess?
Year?
implying that?

Answer 9

Maass
2013
the scene is semi-symbolic, not completely accurate