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 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 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 ♠ Pherekydes 3F17 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, pp. 65-66, ed. F. Jacoby, 2d ed. Leiden 1957. ♠ Aischylos, Sphinx fr 235 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 342, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985. ♠ Athenaios 15.674d Greek Text … Continue reading Page 160 (with art)
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Scholia to Hesiod, Works and Days 89 ♠ Eumelos, Korinthiaka fr 1 PEG – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 108, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987. ♠ Servius, Scholia to Vergil, Eclogues 6.42 – Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii Bucolica et … Continue reading Page 157 (with art)
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 521-22 And ready-witted Prometheus he bound with inextricable bonds, cruel chains, and drove a shaft through his middle. Greek Text ♦ Athens, National Archaeoloigcal Museum, 16384: Attic black-figure skyphos-krater by Nettos Painter, with Herakles, Prometheus and eagle Image … Continue reading Page 155 (with art)
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Chapter 18: Other Myths Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Scholion A at Homer, Iliad 1.268 – Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem 1, pp. 40-41, ed. W. Dindorf and E. Maass. Oxford 1875. Greek Text ♠ Apollonios of Rhodes, Argonautika 3.61-63 Him will I deliver, though he sail even to Hades to … Continue reading Ixion (page 720, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Eretria, Archaeological Museum: terracotta statuette of horse/man from Lefkandi (Kentauros?) Wikimedia ♦ Paris, Cabinet des Médailles M.5837: Cycladic sealstone, archer and horse/man (Herakles and Kentauros Nessos?) Cabinet des Médailles ♦ Athens, National Museum 15350: ivory relief plaque from … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 145, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pindar, Pythian 4.119 The divine centaur called me by the name Jason. Greek Text ♠ Pindar fr 166 SM – Pindarus 2, p. 121, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975. ♠ Homer, Iliad 2.742-44 Polypoetes, staunch … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 144, with art)
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