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 ♠ 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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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