Chapter 17, The Return from Troy Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paris, Louvre F122: Attic black-figure eye cup with armed Aineias fleeing Troy, carrying his father Anchises on his back and accompanied by his son Askanios, whose legs are visible behind Aineias Wikimedia Two details from O. Benndorf, Wiener Vorlegeblätter … Continue reading Aineias (page 715, with art)
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
Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Pindar, Pythian 4.119 The divine centaur called me by the name Jason. Greek Text ♠ Pindar fr 166 SM – Pindarus 2, p. 121, ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975. ♠ Homer, Iliad 2.742-44 Polypoetes, staunch … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 144, with art)
Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homeric Hymn to Aprodite 5.256-75 As for the child, as soon as he sees the light of the sun, the deep-breasted mountain Nymphs who inhabit this great and holy mountain shall bring him up. They rank neither with … Continue reading Minor Divinities (page 141, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 18.203-4 but Achilles, dear to Zeus, roused him, and round about his mighty shoulders Athene flung her tasselled aegis. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Iliad 24.20-21 and with the golden aegis he covered him wholly, that Achilles might not tear his body as … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Athena (page 85, with art)
Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Homer, Iliad 5.844-45 but Athene put on the cap of Hades, to the end that mighty Ares should not see her. Greek Text ♠ ApB 1.2.1 – Apollodoros, Bibliotheke (Library) And the Cyclopes then gave Zeus thunder and lightning and a thunderbolt, … Continue reading The Children of Kronos: Hades (page 71, with art)