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 ♦ Copenhagen, Thorvaldsen Museum 99: Attic red-figure neck-amphora with Artemis and Aktaion, who is wearing deerskin and using club against attacking dogs P. Jacobstahl, “Aktaions Tod,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1929), p.4 fig. 6 Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale 3291C: metope from … Continue reading Aktaion (page 481 upper, with art)
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Chapter 5: The Line of Deukalion Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection Kä 404: Attic red-figure bell krater with Aloadai, deer and Artemis Aloades Beazley Archive Pottery Database Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Tags: #Aloadai #deer #Artemis Edited by R. Ross Holloway, Elisha … Continue reading The Aloadai (page 171 upper, with art)
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Chapter 18: Other Myths Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Polygnotos’ Nekuia painting at Knidian Lesche, Delphi (known through Pausanias’ description and modern reconstructions) Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.31.10 [10] Higher up than these is Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, Nomia, and Pero, daughter of Neleus. As her bride-price Neleus asked for the oxen of … Continue reading Lykaon and Kallisto (page 728, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Lost Apulian? amphora with Leto with children (Apollo and Artemis?) and snake (Python?) Wm. Tischbein, Collection of engravings from ancient vases mostly of pure Greek workmanship… vol. 3 (1795), pl. 4 ♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: terracotta acroterion from Portonaccio temple, … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 89, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 5.447 There Leto and the archer Artemis healed him in the great sanctuary, and glorified him [Aeneas]. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Odyssey 11.576-81 And I saw Tityos, son of glorious Gaea, lying on the ground. Over nine roods he … Continue reading The Titans (page 39, with art)
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