Chapter 1: The Early Gods
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♠ Alkaios 327 LP – Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta, p. 265, ed. E. Lobel and D. L. Page. Oxford 1955
♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico Nazionale 4209: Attic black-figure volute krater (François Krater) with Iris from wedding of Peleus and Thetis
A. Furtwaengler, Adolf and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie I, Tafel 1-60, 1904), detail of pls. 1-2
Detail of Wikimedia photo by Sailko
♦ London, British Museum 1971.11.1: Attic black-figure dinos (Sophilos or Erskine Dinos) by Sophilos, with Iris from wedding of Peleus and Thetis
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♦ Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Coll. 1.587: Attic black-figure dinos fragments by Sophilos with Iris from wedding of Peleus and Thetis
B. Graef and E. Langlotz, Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen, vol. I plates (1925), detail of pl. 26d
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F 2278: Attic red-figure cup by potter Sosias with Iris as cupbearer of gods
A. Furtwaengler and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie III, Tafel 121-180, 1932), detail of pl. 123
Wikimedia photo by Miguel Hermoso Cuesta
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♦ Munich, Antikensammlungen 2304 (J405): Attic red-figure amphora by Nikoxenos Painter with Iris as cupbearer of gods
E. Gerhard, Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder, hauptsächlich Etruskischen Fundorts (Band 1: Götterbilder, 1840), detail from pl. 7
Wikimedia photo by Bibi Saint-Poi
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♦ Munich, Antikensammlungen 2426 (J291): Attic red-figure hydria by Kleophrades Painter with Iris and infant Hermes
E. Gerhard, Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder, hauptsächlich Etruskischen Fundorts (Band 2: Heroenbilder 1843), detail of pl. 83
Drawings by J.D. Beazley of faces of Iris and Hermes, from Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ London, British Museum E12: Attic red-figure cup by Nikosthenes Painter with Iris and corpse of Memnon (or Sarpedon)
A. Furtwaengler and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder (Serie III, Tafel 121-180, 1932), middle of pl. 156
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♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico 4218: Attic red-figure skyphos by Kleophrades Painter with Iris and Centaurs
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♦ London, British Museum E65: Attic red-figure cup by Brygos Painter with Iris and Silenoi
Drawing by J.D. Beazley of Iris, from Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ Boston, Museum of Fine Arts RES.08.30a: Attic red-figure cup with Iris and Silenoi
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F2591: Attic red-figure skyphos by Penthesilea Painter with Iris and Silenoi
E. Gerhard, Antike Bildwerke (I. Centurie, Heft 3, 1827), pl. 48 top
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F1895: Attic black-figure hydria by Antimenes Painter with Hermes and Iris leading goddesses to Paris
E. Gerhard, Etruskische und Kampanische Vasenbilder des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin (1843), pl. 14 (main panel)
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung F2264: Attic red-figure cup by Oltos with Iris with kerykeion/caduceus (herald’s staff)
J.C. Hoppin, A Handbook of Attic Red-Figured Vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., vol. 2 (1919), detail of fig. p. 249
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♠ Homer, Iliad 8.398
And he sent forth golden-winged Iris to bear a message. Greek Text
♠ Homer, Iliad 11.185
And he sent forth golden-winged Iris to bear his message. Greek Text
♠ Epimenides, Theogony 3B7 – Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 1, p. 34, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz. 6th ed. Berlin 1951.
♠ Pherekydes of Syros 7B5 – Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 1, pp. 49-50, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz. 6th ed. Berlin 1951.
♠ Epimenides, Theogony 3B9 – Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 1, p. 34, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz. 6th ed. Berlin 1951.
He says that the Eumenides come from Kronos:
From him beautiful-haired golden Aphrodite was born
and the immortal Moirai and the Erinyes gleaming with gifts. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) Greek Text
♠ Akousilaos 2F10 – Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker 1, p. 51, ed. F. Jacoby. 2d ed. Leiden 1957.
Akousilaos says that the Harpuiai are in charge of the apples; Epimenides says the same thing and that they are the same as the Hesperides. And he says that in the Titanomachia they are in charge of the apples. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) Greek Text
♠ Homer, Iliad 16.150-51
Xanthus and Balius, that flew swift as the winds, horses that the Harpy Podarge conceived to the West Wind, as she grazed on the meadow beside the stream of Oceanus. Greek Text
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Artistic Sources edited by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, October 2017
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, University of Georgia, July 2020
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