Kylix: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	cylix

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Detail from the Brygos Cup by the Brygos Painter, showing ancient Greek warriors in battle during the Sack of Troy, with figures in armor and shields on a black and red pottery surface.

Kylix, a drinking cup used in ancient Greece.

The Judgment of Paris, Hermes leading Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite to Paris, detail of a red-figure kylix by Hieron, 6th century BC; in the Staatliche Museen Antikenabteilung, Berlin

“Dionysus Crossing the Sea,” interior of a kylix (shallow drinking cup) by Exekias, c. 535 bc; in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich

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“Dionysus Crossing the Sea,” interior of a kylix (shallow drinking cup) by Exekias, c. 535 bc; in the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich

Exekias

Greek artist

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Euphronios

Greek artist

Athenian red-figure cup, detail of a bearded reveler by the Brygos Painter, c. 490 bc; in the Louvre, Paris.

Brygos Painter

Greek artist