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 5: The Line of Deukalion Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Munich, Antikensammlungen 3268: Apulian red-figure volute krater by the Sisyphus Painter, with Laertes and Antiklea Flickr (this whole view and two details below) Scene 1: Laertes introduces Antikleia to friends Scene 2: Laertes hands token with Sisyphos’ name … Continue reading The Aiolidai: Sisyphos (page 176 upper, with art)
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Chapter 5: The Line of Deukalion Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paestum Museum: metope from Heraion I at Foce del Sele with Sisyphos and his rock, tormented by a male demon (Thanatos?) Paestum Museum, Wikimedia ♦ Formerly Kassel, Staatliche Antikensammlung S 49b (now lost): Lakonian black-figure cup, Sisyphos ? J. … Continue reading The Aiolidai: Sisyphos (page 174, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 30 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, pp. 19-21, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967. ♠ Plato, Gorgias 523b but whoever has lived unjustly and impiously goes to the dungeon of requital and penance which, you know, … Continue reading Hades, Tartaros, Elysion (page 131, with art)
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Chapter 3: Olympos, the Underworld, and Minor Divinities Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Paestum Museum: metope from Heraion I at Foce del Sele with Sisyphos and his rock, tormented by a male demon (Thanatos?) Paestum Museum, Wikimedia ♦ London, British Museum B261: Attic black-figure neck-amphora by Leagros Group, Underworld with Sisyphos … Continue reading Hades, Tartaros, Elysion (page 130, with art)
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