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Demeter and Dionysos on Acrocorinth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

A. D. Ure
Affiliation:
University of Reading

Extract

In Volume lxix of this Journal I published a paper with the unfortunate title ‘Boeotian Haloa’. Unfortunate because the group of vases with which it was concerned, which had been accepted as Boeotian ever since Wide first studied them in 1901, were shown by the American excavations in the Potters' Quarter at Corinth to be in fact Corinthian. That being so all speculations based on Wide's assumption of Boeotian origin, and particularly the supposed connexion of the vases with the cult of Demeter at Mykalessos, had to be dropped.

Type
Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1969

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References

1 JHS lxix (1949) 18 f.

2 The vases from the Potters', Quarter are to be published in Corinth XV iii.Google Scholar

3 See ‘The God with the Winnowing-fan’ in JHS lxxii (1952) 121.

4 Ibid. ‘Demeter and Dionysos’.

5 JHS lxix (1949) 21 fig. 3.

6 Winnowing could be done almost anywhere, but it is probable that it took place normally on the threshing-floor as in modern times. I have seen in an art and craft shop in Crete a model threshing-floor with toy oxen treading the corn. By the side of the circular floor there was a little hut and on the wall of the hut hung a winnowing fork and shovel corresponding closely to those of Dionysos on the Reading vase.

7 For a further discussion of the relation of Dionysos, to the threshing-floor see ‘Threshing-floor or Vineyard’ in CQ v (1955) 225 f.Google Scholar

8 i 4.7.

9 Hesperia xxxvii (1968) 299 f.

10 Ibid. pl. 87 b–d.

11 Ibid. 325 f. and 326 n. 31.

12 Compare the εἱλόπεδον or θειλόπεδον of Od. vii 122 f. and see CQ v (1955) 227.