3-041-433 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Attic Red-Figure Cup; Wine Cup with a Singing Reveler; Paleothodoros, Dimitris. Epictetos, Collection D'etudes Classiques. (Louvain, Namur, Paris and Dudley, MA: Editions Peeters/Societe Des Etudes Classiques, 2004), vol. 18, about 510 B. C. Additional Info: Reclining on a couch, a balding man tilts his head back and sings, accompanying himself on the lyre. Several features of the scene, such as the couch, the pillow, and especially the wreath the man wears, reveal that he is a participant at a symposion or drinking party.