PLATE XLVI
The Return of Hephaistos to Olympos
Hephaistos, crowned with the festive ivy and holding a pair of smith's tongs, rides unsteadily on a spirited mule. In front of him walks Dionysos carrying his special emblems, the thyrsos and the kantharos. The short and merry procession is led by a Satyr with a horse's tail and pointed ears, who as he goes along seems to be dancing to the accompaniment of his own lyre. From a red-figured krater of about 440 b.c., in Munich (Furtwängler-Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, No. 7). See pp. 206-07.
