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 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 ♠ Fab 30 – Hyginus, Fabulae The wild stag with golden horns in Arcadia he brought alive to show Eurystheus. Latin Text ♦ Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 75-35-1: Boiotian fibula with Herakles attacking Hind with a spear as he holds one of her horns; … Continue reading Labor III: The Keryneian/Kerynitian Hind (page 388, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Lost Apulian? amphora with Leto with children (Apollo and Artemis?) and snake (Python?) Wm. Tischbein, Collection of engravings from ancient vases mostly of pure Greek workmanship… vol. 3 (1795), pl. 4 ♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: terracotta acroterion from Portonaccio temple, … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 89, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homeric Hymn to Apollo 3.214-545 Or shall I sing how at the first you went about the earth seeking a place of oracle for men, O far-shooting Apollo? To Pieria first you went down from Olympus and passed by sandy Lectus and Enienae and … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Apollo (page 88, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 5.447 There Leto and the archer Artemis healed him in the great sanctuary, and glorified him [Aeneas]. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Odyssey 11.576-81 And I saw Tityos, son of glorious Gaea, lying on the ground. Over nine roods he … Continue reading The Titans (page 39, with art)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homeric Hymn to Apollo 3.14-126 Rejoice, blessed Leto, for you bare glorious children, the lord Apollo and Artemis who delights in arrows; her in Ortygia, and him in rocky Delos, as you rested against the great mass of the Cynthian hill … Continue reading The Titans (page 38)
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Chapter 1: The Early Gods Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Sappho 58 LP – Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, pp. 41-42, ed. E. Lobel and D. L. Page. Oxford 1955 ♠ Mimnermos 4 W – Iambi et Elegi Graeci 2, p. 84, ed. M. L. West. Oxford 1972 To Tithonos he gave to … Continue reading The Titans (page 37, with art)
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