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 ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 1008-10 And Cytherea with the beautiful crown was joined in sweet love with the hero Anchises and bore Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with its many wooded glens. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Iliad 13.427-35 Then the dear son of … Continue reading The Trojan Kings (page 559, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Athens, Acropolis Museum 1.587: Attic black figure dinos fragment by Sophilos, Chariklo iconiclimc Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦ London, British Museum, 1971,1101.1: Attic black-figure dinos by Sophilos (“The Erskine Dinos”), wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Cheiron, Hebe, Dionysos, … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 146, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ London, British Museum 1971.11-1.1: fragment of Attic black-figure dinos by Sophilos, with Peleus, Iris, Hestia and Demeter, and Leto and Chariklo (right to left) British Museum Beazley Archive Pottery Database Perseus Art and Archaeology Artifact Browser ♦ Athens, National Museum, Acropolis … Continue reading The Children of Kronos: Hestia (page 74 upper, only with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Ovid, Fasti 6.319-48 Shall I pass over or relate thy disgrace, rubicund Priapus? It is a short story, but a very merry one. Cybele, whose brow is crowned with a coronet of towers, invited the eternal gods to her feast. She … Continue reading The Children of Kronos: Hestia (page 73 lower, with art)
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