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 ♦ Once Heidelberg, private collection: Attic red-figure pyxis with Pentheus as hunter with two spears, flanked by Mainades on right and Artemis and Apollo on left H. Philippart, ‘Iconographie des “Bacchantes” d’Euripide,” Revue belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 9.1 (1930), pl. 7b Beazley Archive Pottery Database ApB … Continue reading Agaue and Pentheus (page 483 upper, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 10.221a-f: six fragments of Attic red-figure psykter by Euphronios, with torso of Pentheus (named) and two Mainades tearing him apart, left one named Galene. Museum of Fine Arts P. Hartwig, “Der Tod des Pentheus,” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 7 (1892) … Continue reading Agaue and Pentheus (page 482, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 10.221a-f: six fragments of Attic red-figure psykter by Euphronios, with torso of Pentheus (named) and two Mainades tearing him apart, left one named Galene. Museum of Fine Arts P. Hartwig, “Der Tod des Pentheus,” Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 7 (1892) … Continue reading Agaue and Pentheus (page 481 lower, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Bakchylides 5.165-73 “Is there, in the halls of battle-loving Oineus, any daughter, unsubdued by love, whose appearance is like yours? I would gladly make her my splendid bride.” And to him the soul of Meleager, steadfast in battle, answered: “I left behind at … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Dionysos (page 117, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Euripides, Bakchai 103 for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey Greek Text ♠ Aischylos, Eumenides 25-26 ever since he, as a god, led the Bacchantes in war, and contrived for Pentheus death as of a hunted hare. Greek … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 143, with art)
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