For the orchid genus, see its synonym Pachystoma . Image Cup Apatouria Louvre G138.jpg thumb right 280px Procession of men Apaturia? , Attica Attic red figure kylix drinking cup kylix , ca. 480 BC, Louvre G 138 Apaturia lang el Polytonic were Ancient Greece Ancient Greek festival s held annually by all the Ionia n towns, except Ephesus and Colophon . ref Herodotus i. 147. ref At Athens the Apaturia took place on the 11th, 12th and 13th days of the month Pyanepsion mid October to mid November , on which occasion the various phratries , or clans, of Attica met to discuss their affairs. The name is a slightly modified form of Polytonic Polytonic , , the festival of common relationship . The ancient etymology associated it with Polytonic deceit , a legend claiming that the festival originated in 1100 B.C. as a commemoration of a single combat between a certain Melanthus, representing King Thymoetes of Attica, and King Xanthus of Boeotia , in which Melanthus successfully threw his adversary off his guard by crying that a man in a black goat skin identified with Dionysus was helping him. ref Scholiast on Aristophanes, Acharnians , 146. ref On the first day of the festival, called Dorpia or Dorpeia , banquets were held towards evening at the meeting place of the phratries or in the private houses of members. On the second, Anarrhysis from Polytonic , to draw back the victim s head , a sacrifice of oxen was offered at the public cost to Zeus Phratrius and Athena . On the third day, Kure tis Polytonic , children born since the last festival were presented by their fathers or guardians to the assembled phratores, and, after an oath had been taken as to their legitimacy and the sacrifice of a goat or a sheep, their names were inscribed in the register. The name Polytonic is derived either from Polytonic , young man , i.e., the day of the young, or less probably from , to shear , bec ... more details
unreferenced date December 2008 taxobox name Pachystoma image Pachystoma thomsonianum 1.jpg image caption Pachystoma thomsonianum regnum Plantae unranked divisio Angiosperms unranked classis Monocots ordo Asparagales familia Orchidaceae subfamilia Epidendroideae tribus Arethuseae subtribus Bletiinae genus Pachystoma genus authority Karl Ludwig von Blume Blume subdivision ranks Species subdivision Pachystoma holtzei Pachystoma nutans Pachystoma pubescens Pachystoma senile Pachystoma thomsonianum etc. Pachystoma is a genus of orchid s family biology family Orchidaceae . The genus has about 10 species, distributed over India , China , Indomalesia , northern Australia and several Pacific Islands including New Caledonia . The genera Apaturia small John Lindley Lindl. small , Pachychilus small Karl Ludwig von Blume Blume small and Pachystylis small Karl Ludwig von Blume Blume small have been brought into synonymy with Pachystoma . External links commonscat wikispecies Unallied Bletiinae Genera http www.orchidspecies.com pachypubescens.htm Pachystoma pubescens http www.ars grin.gov cgi bin npgs html taxon.pl?445925 GRIN entry Category Orchid genera Category Epidendroideae es Pachystoma pt Pachystoma ... more details
Image Griechen51.jpg thumb 200px right Erotic scene, interior image on a drinking cup, circa 470 v.Chr. Tarquinia , Museo Nazionale. Image Cup Apatouria Louvre G138.jpg thumb 200px right Procession of men, and youth pouring wine for Dionysos , interior of a kylix drinking cup kylix . Paris , Louvre . The Triptolemos Painter was an ancient Greek vase painter, belonging to the Attica Attic Red figure pottery red figure style. He was active in Athens between 490 and 470 BC. His real name is not known. He started working in the workshop of Euphronios , were he was probably taught by Douris vase painter Douris . Later, he also worked for the potters Brygos potter Brygos , Hieron potter Hieron and Python potter Python . Initially, his style was strongly influenced by Archaic Greece Archaic art. His later works are mediocre in quality. Nonetheless, his repertoire is broad, reaching from the Apaturia procession via erotic scenes and Thebes Greece Theban scenes to the departure of Triptolemos his name vase . Bibliography Margot Schmidt Der Zorn des Achill. Ein Stamnos des Triptolemosmalers . In Opus nobile. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Ulf Jantzen Wiesbaden 1969 p. 141 152. Elfriede R. Knauer Ein Skyphos des Triptolemosmalers Berlin 1973 Winckelmannsprogramme der Arch ologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, 125 . Elfriede R. Knauer Fragments of a cup by the Triptolemos Painter . In Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies 17 1976 p. 209 216. Elfriede R. Knauer Two cups by the Triptolemos Painter. New light on two Athenian festivals? In Arch ologischer Anzeiger 1996, p. 221 246. Elfriede R. Knauer Fragments of a cup by the Triptolemos Painter from the Undset Blindheim Collection . In Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia s.a. 9 1997 p. 17 19. Source of Translation commons category Triptolemos Painter Translation Ref de Triptolemos Maler oldid 38486566 Greek Vases Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Triptolemos Painter ALTERNATIVE ... more details
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