Chapter 8: Minos and Krete
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Athens, National Museum, 1061, Attic black-figure lekythos by the Beldam Painter, Theseus and the Minotaur
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London, British Museum, E84, Attic kylix by the Codrus Painter, Theseus and the Minotaur
New York, Metropolitan Museum, 56.171.46, Attic column krater by the Alkimakos Painter, Theseus and the Minotaur
London, British Museum, E37, Attic kylix by Epiktetos, Theseus and the Minotaur
Unknown, ex Bunker Hunt Collection, Attic pelike by Hermonax, Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur
Front side of pelike, from flickr
Back side of pelike, from flickr
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Athens, Acropolis Museum, 2.735, Kylix Krater by the Syriskos Painter, Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 804, by Hermonax, Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur
Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, 1970.5, Attic amphora (fragmentary) by the Kleophrades Painter, Theseus and the Minotaur
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 804, Attic stamnos by Hermonax, Theseus and the Minotaur
♠ Σ Od 321-25 – Scholia to Homer, Odyssey – Scholia Graeca in Homeris Odysseam 2, pp. 504-7, ed. W. Dindorf. Oxford 1855.
♠ Od 321-25 – Homer, Odyssey
And Phaedra and Procris I saw, and fair Ariadne, the daughter of Minos of baneful mind, whom once Theseus was fain to bear from Crete to the hill of sacred Athens; but he had no joy of her, for ere that Artemis slew her [325] in sea-girt Dia because of the witness of Dionysus. Greek Text
♠ Th 947-49 – Hesiod, Theogony
And golden-haired Dionysus made brown-haired Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, his buxom wife: and the son of Cronos made her deathless and unageing for him. Greek Text
♠ Hesiod, Ehoiai (Catalogue of Women) fr 147 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 72, ed. R. Merkelbach and M. L. West. Oxford 1967.
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