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 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 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 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Alkaios 327 LP – Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, p. 265, ed. E. Lobel and D. L. Page. Oxford 1955 ♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 4209: Attic black-figure volute krater (François Krater) with Iris from wedding of Peleus and Thetis A. Furtwaengler, Adolf … Continue reading Gaia and Pontos (page 18, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Aischylos, Hoplôn Krisis fr 174 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 289, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985. ♠ Homer, Odyssey 24.47-59 And thy mother came forth from the sea with the immortal sea-nymphs, when she heard the tidings, and a wondrous … Continue reading Gaia and Pontos (page 17)
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