1. a shallow drinking cup with a wide bowl and two handles, used in ancient Greece.
Usage: also spelled kylix; archaeology, classical studies

Examples

• The museum displayed a red-figure cylix from the 5th century BCE.
• Ancient Greek symposium guests drank wine from a cylix.
• The cylix's wide, shallow bowl made it ideal for drinking and tossing games.
• Archaeologists carefully restored the fragments of a black-figure cylix.
• The artist painted mythological scenes on the interior of the cylix.