title: 5 Dionysiac Mythology in Flux Vase Imagery between 480 and 430 bc
abstract: It is well known that for Athens the decades between the victory over the Persians and the beginning of the Peloponnesian war were a period of selfconfidence and secured prestige in the Greek world. In Greek art the punctilious late archaic style is followed by the so-called severe style which is most markedly expressed by the figures of the metopes and pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, completed in 456. The invention of counterpose for freestanding figures added spatiality and movemen