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 ♦ 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 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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