Mastos Painter

On a belly amphora executed around 525 BC, he depicts an ivy-bearing Dionysus bringing his mother Semele from the underworld; the god looks back at her as she climbs into a chariot drawn by the magnificent pair of horses who dominate the scene.

The largest leaps in amazement on the chariot-shaft, looking back at the recovered Semele; another stands shoulder-height before the horses as he plays an aulos, the double-pipe wind instrument.

A third, the smallest figure in the group, stoops beneath the horses, one hand extended toward their bellies and the other grasping his phallus.

[8] The scene depicts the winning horse in a race, mounted by the nude boy-jockey holding a pair of branches.

An elaborately clothed man stands in front of the horse, patting its muzzle and holding a wreath and branches.