[167]. The composition is strikingly like that in fig. 18. The two temples are exact counterparts of each other. The altars likewise and the Apollo figures have much in common. Most important of all is the fact that in both pictures the chief persons are denoted by inscriptions. It should be observed further that both vases are of the same style, amphoras with volute handles, and both were found in Ruvo. These facts lead me to believe that one and the same artist may have been the painter of both works.
[168]. Cf. figs. 6, 7, 18, 20, 21, 23.
[169]. The 26th idyll of Theokritos should also be counted with the Bakchai.
[170]. Suidas s. v. Thespis.
[171]. But one verse remains, Nauck’s Fragmenta, no. 183.
[172]. A psykter in the Bourguignon coll., Naples; pub. Jahrbuch, 1892, pl. 5. The vase belongs to the Epiktetos set, and may be dated cir. 500 B.C.
[173]. The following, given by Hartwig, Jahrbuch, 1892, p. 154 ff., may be mentioned as supplementing the list in Jahn’s well-known essay, Pentheus und die Mainaden, Kiel, 1841.
(1) Attic pyxis, Louvre; pub. Jahrbuch, 1892, p. 156; date 420–400 B.C.
(2) Kylix in Museo di Papa Giulio, Rome, described by Hartwig, op. cit. p. 163, who thinks it may have well been influenced by Euripides, but he sets the date of the Bakchai at 410 B.C.! I have not seen the vase nor any publication of it, but should infer from Hartwig’s description that it is older than the tragedy.
[174]. Lucanian fabric, no. 807 in Jahn’s cat., pub. Jahn’s Pentheus und die Mainaden, pl. ii. a; Reinach-Millingen, Peintures, pl. 5 = Baumeister, Denkmäler, ii. no. 1396.