King Lycurgus of Thrace attacks his wife in a frenzy. Lycurgus had been driven mad by Dionysus as p
King Lycurgus of Thrace attacks his wife in a frenzy. Lycurgus had been driven mad by Dionysus as punishment for banning Dionysiac rites from his kingdom. Detail from an Apulian red-figure calyx-krater, name-vase of the Lycurgus Painter; ca. 350 BCE. Now in the British Museum. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons. -- source link
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