Chapter 14: Thebes
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♦ London, British Museum B425: Attic black-figure cup with Dionysos and Semele in Underworld?
Hades?, Poseidon and Zeus
Semele? Hermes, Persephone? and Dionysos
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♠ DS 5.52.2 – Diodorus Siculus, Library of History
The reason Zeus slew Semelê with his lightning before she could give birth to her child was his desire that the babe should be born, not of a mortal woman but of two immortals, and thus should be immortal from its very birth. Greek Text
♦ London, British Museum E313: Attic red-figure neck-amphora by Berlin Painter with Zeus with thunderbolt pursuing unnamed woman (Aigina?)
Drawing of Zeus by J.D. Beazley, from Beazley Archive Pottery Database
♦ New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 96.19.1: Attic red-figure column krater with Zeus with thunderbolt pursuing Aigina (named)
Drawing by Lindsley F. Hall, from G.M.A. Richter, Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1936), pl. 94
Beazley Archive Pottery Database
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Artistic sources edited by Frances Van Keuren, Prof. Emerita, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Univ. of Georgia, July 2020
Literary source edited by Elena Bianchelli, Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, University of Georgia, March 2020
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