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 ♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: Ionian hydria called “Ricci Hydria”, with Zeus seated and holding scales; before him, Eos and Thetis begging for their sons’ lives; farther to right, fight of Achilleus and Memnon Flickr photo by Dan Diffendale Flickr … Continue reading Penthesileia and Memnon (page 624, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Aischylos, Laios Fr 122 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Vol. 3, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985 to expose [a child] in a pot (Transl. by Elena Bianchelli) Greek Text: χυτριζειν Sophokles, OT (Oidipous Tyrannos) 717-19 And the child’s birth was not yet three days past, when Laius … Continue reading Oidipous (page 492, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page 10 GLP – Select Papyri III, pp. 60-71 Greek Text and Translation Euripides, pp. 410-11 N2 Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. A. Nauck, 2nd edition. Leipzig 1889 Greek Text ♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, F3296: Sicilian red-figure calyx krater with punishment of Dirke by bull (upper left); inside cave (on the … Continue reading Antiope, Amphion, and Zethos (page 485, 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 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 ♠ 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 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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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.689-712 To him the God, “ A famous Naiad dwelt among the Hamadryads, on the cold Arcadian summit Nonacris, whose name was Syrinx. Often she escaped the Gods, that wandered in the groves of sylvan shades, and often fled from Satyrs that … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Hermes (page 111, with art)
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