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Definition of Cylix
1. Noun. A shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece.
Definition of Cylix
1. Noun. (alternative form of kylix) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cylix
1. kylix [n CYLICES] - See also: kylix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cylix
Literary usage of Cylix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ideals in Art: Papers--theoretical--practical--critical by Walter Crane (1905)
"... may be discovered by anyone who will interlock right and left hand and note
the form expressed by the overlapped fingers. Greek cylix Peleus and Thetis ..."
2. A Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by Ernest Arthur Gardner (1897)
"cylix, with high stem, slightly curving out at rim. Height, •15 m. ; diameter, '22
m. ... cylix, with rim. Height, '12 m. ; diameter, ч8 m. ..."
3. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"In the treatment of the hair, the full faces, the style, the attitude, they are
like the other vases of this period. cylix OF THE FLORID ..."
4. Mythology & Monuments of Ancient Athens: Being a Translation of a Portion of by Pausanias (1890)
"In the centre of the cylix is the ship of Dionysos ; in it the god, bearded and
crowned, is seated, holding a rhyton. From the mast rises a spreading vine ..."
5. History of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch (1858)
"... a Corinthian potter, the contemporary of Aristophanes.6 No. 170.—Early cylix.
with biack fibres. ..."
6. The Life of the Ancient Greeks: With Special Reference to Athens by Charles Burton Gulick (1902)
"60 79 Red-figured cylix, perhaps by Duris. Early fifth century. ... 64 82 cylix
belonging to the period of transition from the " severe " style. ..."
7. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1896)
"The one on the left is blowing the double pipes; the one on the right is extending
to her a cylix; while in the field are the words ..."
8. Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek by Paul Victor Christopher Baur (1914)
"cylix. Inside: Youth playing on double-flutes before an altar on which burns ...
cylix. Inside on a segment of a circle stands a bearded man leaning on his ..."
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