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Dionysus and Ariadne Sarcophagus, ca. 180 AD, St. Peter’s basilica, Rome

OGCMA0363ANCIENTDionysusAriadne_Vatican. Dionysus and Ariadne Sarcophagus, ca. 180 AD, St. Peter’s basilica, Rome.

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Dionysus and Ariadne Sarcophagus, ca. 180 AD, St. Peter’s basilica, Rome

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  1. OGCMA0363ANCIENTDionysusAriadne_Vatican Dionysus and Ariadne Sarcophagus, ca. 180 AD, St. Peter’s basilica, Rome Ariadne’s rescue by Dionysus’s arrival came to be an allegory for the divine rewakening of the soul from death, raising it to eternal life. The theme was treated frequently treated in late-antique and early Christian funerary art. The Vatican sarcophagus dates to about 180 A.D. and is found in situ beneath St. Peter’s basilica, Rome. Dionysus arrives (left) in a musical entourage of bacchantes and satyrs. Dionysus also stands over the sleeping Ariadne (center). Pentheus (left) deals with two maenads who are about to attack him. The lid shows a bacchanalia in full swing. The burial may well have been either pagan or Christian. ML p. 605 http://saintpetersbasilica.org/Necropolis/Pic/scavi-tombZ-bacsarc-mb.jpg

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