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 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Rome, Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia: Ionian hydria called “Ricci Hydria”, with Zeus seated and holding scales; before him, Eos and Thetis begging for their sons’ lives; farther to right, fight of Achilleus and Memnon Flickr photo by Dan Diffendale Flickr … Continue reading Penthesileia and Memnon (page 624, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Copenhagen, Thorvaldsen Museum 99: Attic red-figure neck-amphora with Artemis and Aktaion, who is wearing deerskin and using club against attacking dogs P. Jacobstahl, “Aktaions Tod,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 5 (1929), p.4 fig. 6 Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♦Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale 3291C: metope from … Continue reading Aktaion (page 481 upper, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ London, British Museum B425: Attic black-figure cup with Dionysos and Semele in Underworld? Hades?, Poseidon and Zeus Semele? Hermes, Persephone? and Dionysos British Museum Beazley Archive Pottery Database Diodorus Siculus 5.52.2 The reason Zeus slew Semelê with his lightning before she could give birth to … Continue reading Semele and Ino (page 477, with art)
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Chapter 14: Thebes Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Diodorus Siculus 3.64.3-4 The third Dionysus, they say, was born in Boeotian Thebes of Zeus and Semelê, the daughter of Cadmus. The myth runs as follows: Zeus had become enamoured of Semelê and often, lured by her beauty, had consorted with her, but Hera, being jealous … Continue reading Semele and Ino (page 476, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Ferrara, Museo Archeologico di Spina 9351: Attic red-figure cup by the Penthesileia Painter, with Zeus and Ganymedes with cock flickr flickr Beazley Archive Pottery Database ♠ Euripides, Troades (Trojan Women) 820-24 In vain, it seems, you Phrygian boy pacing with dainty step … Continue reading The Trojan Kings (page 560, with art)
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Chapter 16, The Trojan War Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Hesiod, Theogony 1008-10 And Cytherea with the beautiful crown was joined in sweet love with the hero Anchises and bore Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with its many wooded glens. Greek Text ♠ Homer, Iliad 13.427-35 Then the dear son of … Continue reading The Trojan Kings (page 559, with art)
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Chapter 4: Prometheus and the First Men Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♠ Aischylos, Prometheus Desmotes (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Bound) 1026-30 Look for no term of this your agony until some god shall appear to take upon himself your woes and of his own free will descend into the sunless realm of Death … Continue reading Page 163 (with art)
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Chapter 18: Other Myths Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page ♦ Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale Archeologico: Locrian pinax, woman revealing child in basket (Aphrodite or Persephone and Adonis) pinterest ♦ Naples, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Collezione Santangelo 702: Apulian red-figure pelike with Persephone, Adonis Zeus and Aphrodite with Eros Bullettino archeologico Napoletano 7 (1858-1859), pl. … Continue reading Smyrna/Myrrha and Adonis (page 731 upper, with art)
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Chapter 2: The Olympians Previous Page Table of Contents Next Page Iliad 14.323-25 Nor of Semele, nor of Alcmene in Thebes, and she brought forth Heracles, her son stout of heart, and Semele bare Dionysus, the joy of mortals. Greek Text Hesiod, Theogony 940-42 And Semele, daughter of Cadmus was joined with him in love … Continue reading The Children of Zeus: Dionysos (page 112 lower, with art)
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