A B C D E G H I K L M N O P R S T W Z Zeus, Munich, Antikensammlungen 596 There are two kinds of searches possible for this web site. The first type, which is comprehensive, involves just entering a mythological character’s name in the search box over the left menu … Continue reading Subject tags for mythological characters
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ New York, Metropolitan Museum, 11.213.2: Attic red figure lekythos by the Meidias Painter with Aphrodite, Eros, Chrysippos and Pompe Aphrodite, Eros and Chrysippos (all named) Unnamed woman and Aphrodite Chrysippos and Pompe (named) Metropolitan Museum Beazley Archive Pottery Database Digital LIMC ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, 1968.12: … Continue reading Laios (page 490, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung 30036: Attic red-figure neck-amphora by the Heimarmene Painter, with (in the center) Helen on lap of Aphrodite, and Himeros and Paris; on left, Nemesis pointing finger at Helen and a companion, and Peitho with chest; on right, Heimarmene and woman … Continue reading The Abduction of Helen (page 574, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ London, British Museum 1899.2-19.1: Late Geometric krater with Paris dragging Helen (?) onto a ship with rowers [for another possible interpretation, see page 265] British Museum ♦ New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 27.116: Middle Corinthian column krater, Paris and Helen arriving … Continue reading The Abduction of Helen (page 573, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Throne of Apollo at Amyklai (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions) Pausanias Description of Greece 3.18.12: Hermes is bringing the goddesses to Alexander to be judged (original Greek). Reconstruction of whole throne by A. Furtwängler, from J.G. Frazer, Pausanias’s Description of Greece, vol. III, … Continue reading The Judgment of Paris (page 569, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Athens, National Museum 15368 in Digital LIMC (not 16368, as Gantz): ivory comb from Sparta, Paris with apple in judgment, and three goddesses (from left to right Hera, Athena and Aphrodite) R.M. Dawkins, The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta (1929), pl. … Continue reading The Judgment of Paris (page 568, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico: Etruscan ash urn with Paris in the House of Priam; Paris in center on altar, Aphrodite to the left, Trojan warriors on both sides, Kassandra with axe next on right, and Hekabe (far left) and Priam (far right) History of … Continue reading The Birth and Childhood of Paris (page 563, with art)
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Chapter 18: Other Myths Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale Archeologico: Locrian pinax, woman revealing child in basket (Aphrodite or Persephone and Adonis) pinterest ♦ Naples, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Collezione Santangelo 702: Apulian red-figure pelike with Persephone, Adonis Zeus and Aphrodite with Eros Bullettino archeologico Napoletano 7 (1858-1859), pl. … Continue reading Smyrna/Myrrha and Adonis (page 731 upper, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Panyasis fr 27 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 185, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. ♠ Euripides, Hippolytos 1420-22 That mortal of hers that she loves the most I shall punish with these ineluctable arrows shot from my hand. Greek Text ♠ Theokritos … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Aphrodite (page 103, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 5.592-93 and Ares led them and the queen Enyo, she bringing ruthless Din of War. Greek text ♠ Homer, Iliad 13.518-19 Howbeit this time again he missed him, and smote with his spear Ascalaphus, son of Enyalius, and through the shoulder the … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Ares (page 81 upper, with art)
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