Chapter 14: Thebes
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♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung, F1904 (not lost, as Gantz): Attic black-figure hydria of the Leagros Group with Dionysos and Semele/Thyone.
E. Gerhard, Etruskische und Kampanische Vasenbilder des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin (1843), pls. 4-5
Beazley Archive Pottery Database (no photo)
Digital LIMC (with photo)
♦ Florence, Museo Archeologico 3790: Attic black figure hydria with Dionysos and Thyone behind chariot of Peleus and Thetis
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
Pindar, Olympian 2.22-27
This saying applies to the daughters of Cadmus on their lovely thrones: they suffered greatly, but their heavy sorrow collapsed in the presence of greater blessings. Long-haired Semele, who died in the roar of the thunderbolt, lives among the Olympians. Greek Text
Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysus
The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera. Greek Text
Pindar, Pythian 11.1
Daughters of Cadmus, Semele dwelling among the Olympians and Ino Leucothea, sharing the chamber of the Nereid sea-nymphs. Greek Text
Pindar, Pythian 3.96-99
But in time Cadmus’ three daughters, by their bitter suffering, took from him his share of joy; even though father Zeus had visited the desirable bed of white-armed Thyone. Greek Text
Aischylos, Fr 221 R – Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta 3, p. 336, ed. S. L. Radt. Göttingen 1985
Zeus, who killed him (Trans. by T.N. Gantz)
Plato, Republic 2.381d = fr 168 R
for the life-giving sons of Inachus, the Argive stream. Greek Text
Scholia in Aristophanem, Batrachoi 1344
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Artistic sources edited by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, June 2020
Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, University of Georgia, March 2020
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