17 October 2012
THREE KRATERS FOR THE TEMPERATE
Greek Column-Krater, c.510-500 BC, Athens, black-figure, Archaic, Ceramic, 14 x 15.75 x 13 inches, Museum Purchase with funds from the Volunteer Board Endowment Fund and the Curriculum, Support Budget allocated by the Provost, 1988.62, The Fralin Museum of Art - University of Virginia
Three kraters do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first, the second to love and pleasure and the third to sleep.
When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home.
The fourth bowl is ours no longer, it belongs to hubris, the fifth to uproar, the sixth to prancing about, the seventh to black eyes, the eighth brings the police, the ninth belongs to vomiting, and the tenth to insanity and the hurling of furniture.
Some Greek poet to Dionysius, from πke
Three kraters do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first, the second to love and pleasure and the third to sleep.
When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home.
The fourth bowl is ours no longer, it belongs to hubris, the fifth to uproar, the sixth to prancing about, the seventh to black eyes, the eighth brings the police, the ninth belongs to vomiting, and the tenth to insanity and the hurling of furniture.
Some Greek poet to Dionysius, from πke
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