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 ♦ London, British Museum B425: Attic black-figure cup with Dionysos and Semele in Underworld? Hades?, Poseidon and Zeus Semele? Hermes, Persephone? and Dionysos British Museum Beazley Archive Pottery Database Diodorus Siculus 5.52.2 The reason Zeus slew Semelê with his lightning before she could give birth to … Continue reading Semele and Ino (page 477, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Diodorus Siculus 3.64.3-4 The third Dionysus, they say, was born in Boeotian Thebes of Zeus and Semelê, the daughter of Cadmus. The myth runs as follows: Zeus had become enamoured of Semelê and often, lured by her beauty, had consorted with her, but Hera, being jealous … Continue reading Semele and Ino (page 476, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, F1904 (not lost, as Gantz): Attic black-figure hydria of the Leagros Group with Dionysos and Semele/Thyone. E. Gerhard, Etruskische und Kampanische Vasenbilder des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin (1843), pls. 4-5 Beazley Archive Pottery Database (no photo) Digital LIMC (with photo) ♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico … Continue reading Semele and Ino (page 474, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Iliad 14.323-25 There was Semele, and Alkmene in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Herakles, while Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of humankind. Greek Text Hesiod, Theogony 940-42 And Semele, daughter of Cadmus was joined with him in love and bore him … Continue reading Semele and Ino (page 473 lower, with art)
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Chapter 5: The Line of Deukalion Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Palaiphatos 30 – Mythographi Graeci 2, p. 41-44, ed. N. Festa. Leipzig 1902. About Phrixus, they tell how the ram forewarned him that their father was going to sacrifice them. He took his sister and mounted it with her, and they … Continue reading The Aiolidai: Athamas (page 180 upper, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Bakchylides 5.165-73 “Is there, in the halls of battle-loving Oineus, any daughter, unsubdued by love, whose appearance is like yours? I would gladly make her my splendid bride.” And to him the soul of Meleager, steadfast in battle, answered: “I left behind at … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Dionysos (page 117, 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 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Cracow, National Museum 1225: Attic red-figure hydria, with Lykourgos, his son Dryas and Dionysos L. Piotrowicz, “Lycurgo insano in hydria Cracoviensi representato,” in Stromata in honorem Casimiri Morawski (1908), 79 ff., pl. 9 Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ Munich, Antikensammlungen 3300: Apulian red … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Dionysos (page 114, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Iliad 14.323-25 Nor of Semele, nor of Alcmene in Thebes, and she brought forth Heracles, her son stout of heart, and Semele bare Dionysus, the joy of mortals. Greek Text Hesiod, Theogony 940-42 And Semele, daughter of Cadmus was joined with him in love … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Dionysos (page 112 lower, with art)
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