Krater in ancient Greece

Hello dear community, at the beginning I would like to welcome you all to my contribution and hope you had a day that has brought many positive experiences into your lives! In this post, I would like to talk a little about ancient Greece and hope you can learn new things.

You can see here a vessel from ancient Greece that I photographed recently and was also known as Krater and it was mainly used to mix drinks for ritual occasions and it was typical to mix wine and water with it. This name is also associated with the opening of a volcano and it typically had the shape of a jug and it is usually made of clay as well as in this specimen and sometimes bronze or terracotta is also used and depending on the size, the volume also varies and it can store between 50 - 100 liters of liquid. At festivities, wine and water were usually mixed in a ratio of 50/50 and then filled into small vessels so that the people could drink from it and because of the weight it was in the immediate vicinity of the guests to simplify the way and by the way, wine was rarely drunk pure in ancient times. It was particularly often used in the symposium, which described a festival in which cheerfulness was in the foreground and was already mentioned by the poet Herodotus and it was accompanied by music, dance or theater performances and it was considered very humorous and this custom also spread more and more in the Roman Empire. The kraters are mostly painted and there are mostly typical scenes from Greek mythology and in this painting you can probably see the legend in which Leto was threatened by the giant Tityos and she called her children Artemis as well as Apollo who came to protect her and they hit the giant with their arrows and he was then banished to the underworld of Hades in the part of Tartarus as punishment and this scene is often depicted in the visual art. Often, of course, the god of the wine Dionysus was also depicted in these works and the decoration of mythological scenes is intended to connect people closer to historical events or gods and this vessel was often used in ancient Greece.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about greek history! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens.