Golden Cup
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
a brimming cup of gold · cup of gold · cups of gold · golden cup
in the texts
Hecuba
The libation vessel used by Neoptolemus to pour an offering to Achilles' spirit immediately before Polyxena's sacrifice.
Then Achilles’ son took in his hands a brimming cup of gold and raised in his hand an offering to his dead father, making a sign to me to proclaim silence throughout the Achaean army.
Odyssey
Golden cup(s) used for wine and ritual libations during the feasts at Pylos.
Then he gave them their portions of the inward meats and poured wine for them into a golden cup, handing it to Athena first, and saluting her at the same time.
When the outer meats were done they drew them off the spits and sat down to dinner where they were waited upon by some worthy henchmen, who kept pouring them out their wine in cups of gold.
Athena thought that he was just [ dikaios] and right to have given it to herself first;