Centauri a simposio: alle origini del soggetto, tra pittura e ceramografia

Abstract: In the 5th century B.C., the new setting of the Thessalic Centauromachy at the wedding of Peirithoos associates the Centaurs with a symposion, thereby laying the premises for their later inclusion in the Dionysiac thiasos. Mikon's lost megalography in the Theseion was considered at the origin of a new version of the mythical episode and the vase painting was used to reconstruct its main features, a theory whose controversial sides and limits, as well as some perspective, emerge