Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paestum, Museo Nazionale Archeologico: metope from the Heraion alla Foce del Sele, with Orestes trying to defend himself from serpentine Erinys? Wikimedia Digital LIMC (under scene 17; no photo) ♦ Paestum, Museo Nazionale Archeologico: metope from the Heraion alla … Continue reading Orestes’ Revenge (page 679, with art)
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Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Basel, Antikenmuseum and Ludwig Collection BS 318: relief from terracotta band, reputedly from Sicily, possibly with the boiling of Minos, who is in the lebes of a tripod, as a female (a daughter of Kokalos?) seizes Minos’ arm while … Continue reading Agamemnon (page 670, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Apollodoros, Epitome 5.16-19 And at break of day, when the Trojans beheld the camp of the Greeks deserted and believed that they had fled, they with great joy dragged the horse, and stationing it beside the palace of Priam deliberated … Continue reading The Fall of Troy (page 648, with art)
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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 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pherekydes 3F123 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 93, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Diktys of Krete 4.3 Achilles found Penthesilae among the cavalry and, hurling his spear, hit the mark. Then – no trouble … Continue reading Penthesileia and Memnon (page 622, with art)
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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 ♠ Hyginus, Fabulae 28 OTOS AND EPHIALTES: Otos and Ephialtes, sons of Aloeus and Iphimede, . . . daughter [of Neptune], are said to have been of extraordinary size. They each grew nine inches every month, and so when they were nine years old, they tried to … 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 Higher up than these is Callisto, daughter of Lycaon, Nomia, and Pero, daughter of Neleus. As her bride-price Neleus asked for the … Continue reading Lykaon and Kallisto (page 728, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hyginus, Fabulae 30 The wild stag with golden horns in Arcadia he brought alive to show Eurystheus. Latin Text ♦ Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 75-35-1: Boiotian fibula with Herakles attacking Hind with a spear as he holds one of her … Continue reading Labor III: The Keryneian/Kerynitian Hind (page 388, 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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