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 ♦ New York, Metropolitan Museum, 11.213.2: Attic red figure lekythos by the Meidias Painter with Aphrodite, Eros, Chrysippos and Pompe Aphrodite, Eros and Chrysippos (all named) Unnamed woman and Aphrodite Chrysippos and Pompe (named) Metropolitan Museum Beazley Archive Pottery Database Digital LIMC ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, 1968.12: … Continue reading Laios (page 490, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Odyssey 4.12-14 for to Helen the gods vouchsafed issue no more after that she had at the first borne her lovely child, Hermione, who had the beauty of golden Aphrodite. Greek Text ♠ Kinaithon fr 3 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, … Continue reading The Abduction of Helen (page 573, with art)
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Aischylos, Prometheus Desmotes (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Bound) 1026-30 Look for no term of this your agony until some god shall appear to take upon himself your woes and of his own free will descend into the sunless realm of Death … Continue reading Page 163 (with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Lykophron, Alexandra 38-39 he the slayer of his children, the destroyer of my fatherland; who smote his second mother, invulnerable with grievous shaft upon the breast. Greek Text ♠ Lykophron, Alexandra 1327-28 he went with the wild beast, the Initiate, who drew the milky … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 378 upper, with art)
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Chapter 13: Herakles Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Herodoros 31F15 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 218-19, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957. Greek Text ♠ Tzetzes, Scholia to Lykophron, Alexandra 932 – Lykophronis Alexandra 2, pp. 883-86, ed E. Scheer. Berlin 1908 Greek Text ♠ Ovid, Ibis 361-62 … Continue reading Alkmene and Amphitryon (page 377, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Dresden, Albertinum 350: Attic red-figure calyx krater with Persephone, Hermes and Silenoi P. Herrmann, “Erwerbungen der Antikensammlungen in Deutschland,” Archäologischer Anzeiger 1892, 166 fig. 33 N. Des Vergers, L’Étrurie et les Étrusques: ou, Dix ans de fouilles dans les Maremmes toscanes, … Continue reading The Children of Kronos: Demeter (page 68, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Anakreon 358 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, p. 183, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962. ♠ Euripides, Medeia 530-31 … but to tell how Eros forced you with his ineluctable arrows to save me would expose me to ill-will. Greek Text ♠ … Continue reading Primal Elements (page 4, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 116 In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus. Greek Text ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 813-14 And there are shining gates … Continue reading Primal Elements (page 3 lower)
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