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 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F1837: Attic black-figure neck-amphora by the Diosphos Painter, with Zeus and Pandora ? Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ London, British Museum, D4: Attic white-ground cup by the Tarquinia Painter, adornment of Anesidora (Pandora) by Athena and Hephasitos. British … Continue reading Page 158 (with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Euripides, Hippolytus 339 Phaedra And you, poor sister, Dionysus’ bride. Greek Text ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F2179: Attic red-figure hydria by the Syleus Painter, Theseus, Athena, Dionysos and Ariadne E. Gerhard, Etruskische und Kampanische Vasenbilder des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin (1843), pls. 6-7 Beazley Archive … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Dionysos (page 116, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homeric Hymn to Aprodite 5.256-75 As for the child, as soon as he sees the light of the sun, the deep-breasted mountain Nymphs who inhabit this great and holy mountain shall bring him up. They rank neither with … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 141, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pherekydes 3F120 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 92, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. ♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr 10a.20-24 MW (The Catalogue of Women) fr 10a.20-24 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford. ♠ Hyginus, … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 94, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Propertius, 2.30.16-18 yet this is the place where the skilled pipe should play that which floated in Maeander’s shallows, hurled there unjustly swelling Minerva’s cheeks, to make her ugly. Latin Text ♠ Ovid, Fasti 6.697-710 I was the first, by piercing boxwood with holes wide … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Athena (page 87 upper, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 18.203-4 but Achilles, dear to Zeus, roused him, and round about his mighty shoulders Athene flung her tasselled aegis. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Iliad 24.20-21 and with the golden aegis he covered him wholly, that Achilles might not tear his body as … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Athena (page 85, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 19.114-19 But Hera darted down and left the peak of Olympus, and swiftly came to Achaean Argos, where she knew was the stately wife of Sthenelus, son of Perseus, that bare a son in her womb, and lo, the seventh month was come. This … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Hebe and Eileithuia (page 83 upper, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 1.590-94 “On a time before this, when I was striving to save you, he [Zeus] caught me by the foot and hurled me from the heavenly threshold; the whole day long I was carried headlong, and at sunset I … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Hephaistos (page 75, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 5.844-45 but Athene put on the cap of Hades, to the end that mighty Ares should not see her. Greek Text ♠ ApB 1.2.1 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library) And the Cyclopes then gave Zeus thunder and lightning and a thunderbolt, … Continue reading The Children of Kronos: Hades (page 71, with art)
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