Outside of mainstream religious practice, devotion to the mythical singer Orpheus and the god Dionysos also offered paths to achieving a better lot after death. Initiation in the Eleusinian Mysteries, an annual festival in Greece, promised good fortune in both this world and the next. Yet as this exhibition explores, individuals did seek ways to secure a blessed afterlife. Perpetual torment awaited only the most exceptional sinners, while just a select few-heroes related to the Olympian gods-enjoyed an eternal paradise. Wolfgang Helbig, "Scavi di Nazzano," Bullettino dell Instiituto Archeologico Germanico (1873): 122.The Underworld was a shadowy prospect for most ancient Greeks, characterized primarily by the absence of life’s pleasures.Arianne Dormente, "Arianne dormente e Bacco sopra cratere Etrusco," Annali Dell Instituto Archeologico Germanico (1878): 101.Baur, Preliminary Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases in Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1914), 15, no. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1922), 86, pl. Baur, Catalogue of the Rebecca Darlington Stoddard Collection of Greek and Italian Vases at Yale University, 1st ed. Sir John Davidson Beazley, "Prometheus Fire-Lighter," American Journal of Archaeology 43 (1939): 626–30.Sir John Davidson Beazley, Etruscan Vase Painting, 1st (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 1947), 92, note 2 (giving provenance).(Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1959), 83, no. Adolf Greifenhagen, "Ein Satyrspiele des Aischylos?," Winckelmannsprogramm der Archa¨ologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin 118 (1963).(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1975), 76–78, no. Matheson and Jerome Jordan Pollitt, Greek Vases at Yale, 1st ed., exh. Christa Bauchenss-Thüriedl, Erika Simon, and Ingrid Krauskopf, Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, 8 vols.Matheson, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Yale University Art Gallery I (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2011), 14–16, no.
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